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The Man with One Red Shoe (1985)
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19 July 1985 (USA)
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A man picked randomly out of a crowd is made the target of CIA survelliance and pursuit. full summary | add synopsis
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Spies are US
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Tom Hanks | ... | Richard Harlan Drew |
 | Dabney Coleman | ... | Cooper |
 | Lori Singer | ... | Maddy |
 | Charles Durning | ... | Ross |
 | Carrie Fisher | ... | Paula |
 | Edward Herrmann | ... | Brown (as Ed Herrmann) |
 | James Belushi | ... | Morris (as Jim Belushi) |
| Irving Metzman | ... | Virdon |
| Tom Noonan | ... | Reese |
| Gerrit Graham | ... | Carson |
| David L. Lander | ... | Stemple |
| Ritch Brinkley | ... | Hulse |
| Frank Hamilton | ... | Edgar |
| Dortha Duckworth | ... | Natalie |
 | David Ogden Stiers | ... | The Conductor |
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92 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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UK:15 (re-rating) (uncut) (2004) |
UK:PG (original rating) (cut) |
Iceland:L |
Australia:PG |
Finland:K-12 |
Sweden:11 |
USA:PG |
West Germany:12 |
Singapore:PG
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The music played by the orchestra (when the conductor scolds Drew for interrupting with his own composition) is from "Scheherazade" by Rimsky-Korsakov.
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Continuity: During the scene with the dead bodies in Richard's apartment, Reese manages to remove all the shelves and food from Richard's refrigerator, hide them somewhere else in the kitchen, stuff Carson's body in the fridge, then remove the body and put all the shelves and food back - all in a matter of seconds.
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Cooper:
Hulse, I want you to put a special mike on him tonight, one that isolates everything he plays from the rest of the orchestra. Carson, you link it into the GBLX 1000 computer.
Maddy: The GBLX?
Cooper: Yeah. That thing'll break any code.
Maddy: But that's in control of our entire missile defense system!
Cooper: Honey, will you please - what are the odds of the Russians attacking on a Thursday night?
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Maddy: The GBLX?
Cooper: Yeah. That thing'll break any code.
Maddy: But that's in control of our entire missile defense system!
Cooper: Honey, will you please - what are the odds of the Russians attacking on a Thursday night?
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Referenced in Orion's Cloud (2002)
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If there is a lesson to be learned by Hollywood is not to try to remake whatever was already made, and better. Which seems to be a lesson American movie people seem to forget. The criteria might be that the original film didn't reach a wide American audience, thus the reason for the remake, but frankly, neither Stan Dragoti, the director, or Robert Klane, its adapter, put a dent in what Francis Vever and Yves Robert achieved with the original.
Then again, if one hasn't seen the French film of the same name, this comedy will appear to be the real thing. In fact, there are hardly any laughs in the film. The best sequence involves the Richard and Maddy in the seduction scene where some of her hair is caught in a zipper.
In a way, this was Tom Hanks' third film as a lead man. One can't blame him because he is bogged down by a screen play that could have been better. Tom Hanks pales in comparison with the original Pierre Richard, who was a better comedian.
The cast shows several familiar faces, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Edward Herrmann, John Belushi, but ultimately the ones that fare better in the film are Lori Singer and Carrie Fisher in smaller roles, but ones that afford these two actress good opportunities in which to shine.
Stick with the original version if you can find it in DVD format.