 He co-starred with Michelle Pfeiffer in the newsroom romance "Up Close & Personal" (1996), and with Kristin Scott Thomas and a young Scarlett Johansson in "The Horse Whisperer" (1998), which he also directed.Redford also continued work in films with political contexts, such as "Havana" (1990), playing Jack Weil, a professional gambler in 1959 Cuba during the Revolution, as well as "Sneakers" (1992), in which he co-starred with River Phoenix and Sidney Poitier, his first teaming with the star who had experienced film success several years before Redford.He appeared as a disgraced Army general sent to prison in the prison drama "The Last Castle" (2001), directed by Rod Lurie.