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4 November 1983 (USA)
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Chevy Chase and his partners are arms dealers. They sell second-rate weapons to third world nations. But they're not out to stick it to anyone.
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Arms dealers from several companies vie to sell the most expensive and highest tech weapons to a South American dictator...
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A dark, 1980s comedy
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Chevy Chase | ... | Eddie Muntz | |
| Sigourney Weaver | ... | Catherine DeVoto | |
| Gregory Hines | ... | Ray Kasternak | |
| Vince Edwards | ... | Frank Stryker | |
| William Marquez | ... | Gen. Cordosa | |
| Eduardo Ricard | ... | Col. Salgado | |
| Richard Herd | ... | Lyle | |
| Graham Jarvis | ... | Babers | |
| Wallace Shawn | ... | Harold DeVoto | |
| Randi Brooks | ... | Ms. Della Rosa | |
| Ebbe Roe Smith | ... | Bob | |
| Richard Libertini | ... | Masaggi | |
| J.W. Smith | ... | Will | |
| Carmencristina Moreno | ... | Woman Singer (as Carmen Moreno) | |
| Charles Levin | ... | Dr. Rechtin |
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99 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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Continuity: When Eddie is in the trailer talking to Ray on the radio, he's wearing the headset with the microphone on the left side. In the next shot, it's on the right side.
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General Huddleston:
[watching the Peacemaker malfunction] This is a great day for the Air Force, Senator.
Sen. Bryce: Why is that, General?
General Huddleston: Because the Navy ordered twenty of those disasters.
Navy Officers: Son of a bitch!
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Sen. Bryce: Why is that, General?
General Huddleston: Because the Navy ordered twenty of those disasters.
Navy Officers: Son of a bitch!
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Features "All in the Family" (1971)
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SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN
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| I love Friedkin and Chevy but this movie us unwatchable.. | motley6 |
| political jabs ruined | DaveDude12 |
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Deal of the Century is for those with an appreciation of the absurd. A dry, dark comedy, and an ironic portrayal of 1980s American (Reaganite) values. The film is a humorous, critical portrait of the hypocrisy behind Ronald Reagan's deadly cold war shenanigans. Its a political comedy -- very well directed by William Friedkin (The French Connection, The Exorcist). It is also well performed and photographed. Chevy Chase is perfectly cast as a cynical arms dealer. And the late, great, Gregory Hines, as his partner, disenchanted with the arms business and suddenly filled with pathos, desperately and hilariously turns from heavy-weapons to Jesus. It is not a perfectly plotted or written film, but it strives to intelligently portray its era.