Year of the Gun is a 1991 American spy action thriller film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Andrew McCarthy, Sharon Stone and Valeria Golino.

He is romantically involved with Lia, the estranged wife of an Italian Industrialist, and befriended by Italo Bianchi, a politically left-leaning lecturer at a Rome university.

The story happens against the backdrop of politically charged atmosphere and student unrest, in which the infamous Red Brigades commit their spate of violent attacks which rocked northern Italy in the 1970s, culminating in the kidnapping and later murder of Aldo Moro, former Italian Prime Minister.

As part of a plan to write a commercial novel and raise money to marry and support Lia in the style to which she is accustomed, Raybourne researches the activities and organization of the Red Brigades.

Raybourne is interviewed on American television regarding the successful publication of a now non-fiction book about the Red Brigades and his contact with them, with a postscript saying that Moro was found shot to death in the trunk of a car nearly two months after his kidnapping.

Production was delayed again to October 8 after the United States dollar lost value in its exchange rate with the Italian lira, the currency the producers intended to finance two-thirds of the project with, and led to a budget deficit.

Frankenheimer wanted to shoot the film in black-and-white but was overruled in order to attract younger audiences and raise home video sales.