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5.1/10   21 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Michael Fisher (screenplay)
Michael Fisher (story)
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Release Date:
28 July 1983 (USA) more
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Plot:
Two television actors who play detectives are fired when the show's star gets upset that they are getting the better parts to play. So, they decide to try it for real. | add synopsis
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Cast

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Parker Stevenson ... Bill O'Keefe

Billy Dee Williams ... Douglas Hawk
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Edie Adams ... Hazel
Edwin Avedissian ... Mitch
Richard Bakalyan ... Snuffy
Angela Black ... TV Newswoman

Don Calfa ... Driscoll

Kathryn Daley ... Janie
Herb Edelman

David Faustino ... Patrick
Elizabeth Foxx ... Tracy

Tim Haldeman ... Prop Man
D.D. Howard ... Glenda
Kathleen Lloyd ... Laura
Larry McCormick ... T.V. Newsman
Frank McRae ... Tubbs
Denny Miller
Steven Miller ... T.V. Newsman

John Randolph ... Producer

Cis Rundle ... Girl at Door
John P. Ryan ... McGee
Eric Server ... Director

Tori Spelling ... Jenny O'Keefe

Fred Travalena ... Teddy
Paul Tuerpe ... Patrolman
Lurene Tuttle ... Mrs Brand
Robert Webber ... Woodrow Norton

Efrem Zimbalist Jr. ... Robert Cluso
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Runtime:
96 min
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Certification:
Iceland:12 | Norway:15 (video premiere)

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Good Story, Good Stars - Why doesn't it work??, 12 March 2000
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They say movies are magic. It must be true. There must be a magic ingredient beyond script and actors that make movies work. This movie does not have the magic! Parker Stevenson and Billy Dee Williams star as TV detectives that get cancelled and decide to try it for real. On their first case they have to use a movie prop as a gun ( There is a waiting period to buy a gun). It should work. You are rooting for it to work! But it never does. It reminds you of a pilot for a TV series. Maybe that's what it needed. A little more time for the characters to grow and the plot to develop.

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