Led by Robert Redford, as a former»60s radical long gone underground, the multigenerational group includes a politically paranoid breaking - and - entering expert named Mother (Dan Aykroyd), a former CIA man bounced from the Company (Sidney Poitier), a 19 - year - old computer whiz kid (River Phoenix) and
a blind audio expert named Whistler (scene - stealer David Strathairn).