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LIKE Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy on Facebook:   / tinkertailormovie   Follow Focus Features' Twitter Feed here:   / focusfeatures   Be sure to use #TTSS when tweeting about Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Based on the classic novel of the same name, the international thriller is set at the height of the Cold War years of the mid-20th Century. George Smiley (Gary Oldman), a disgraced British spy, is rehired in secret by his government -- which fears that the British Secret Intelligence Service, a.k.a. MI-6, has been compromised by a double agent working for the Soviets. Release Date December 9, 2011 (select cities) Wide US Release Date January 6, 2012 Starring Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch, Toby Jones, David Dencik, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Stephen Graham, Kathy Burke, Ciarán Hinds Directed By Tomas Alfredson ("Let the Right One In") Screenplay By Peter Straughan & Bridget O'Connor; Based upon the novel by John le Carré