No Way Out is a 1987 American neo-noir[1] thriller film directed by Roger Donaldson and starring Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Will Patton, and Sean Young.

In a house near the Pentagon, Lieutenant Commander Tom Farrell of the Office of Naval Intelligence is under interrogation, asked how he came to meet Secretary of Defense David Brice.

Six months earlier, Farrell is invited to an inaugural ball by his college friend Scott Pritchard, who introduces him to his boss, Secretary Brice.

Returning to Washington, D.C. for his new post, Farrell reunites with his old landlord, and his friend Sam Hesselman, who works in the Pentagon's new computer center.

Army CID Officers search Atwell's apartment, and Pritchard plants the photo negative among the evidence, which Hesselman attempts to have enhanced by computer, a process that may take days.

Credit card statements lead the CID to two witnesses who can identify Atwell's mystery lover; one of them spots Farrell at a distance, confirming to the investigators that Yuri is inside the Pentagon, and a room-by-room search begins.

Farrell sends the printout to the Director of the CIA, Brice's political rival, and leaves as the finished photograph reveals him as Atwell's lover.

He is confronted by his landlord, revealed to be his handler — they are all Soviet agents, and Farrell actually is "Yuri", a deep-cover spy raised as an American from a young age to serve as a high-level mole.

The website's critics consensus states: "Roger Donaldson's modern spin on the dense, stylish suspense films of the 1940s features fine work from Gene Hackman and Sean Young, as well as the career-making performance that made Kevin Costner a star.