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6 December 1985 (USA)
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With spies like these who needs enemies?
Plot:
Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for Nuclear War. full summary | full synopsis
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(4 articles)
Chevy Chase And Beverly D'Angelo To Take Another 'Vacation'... Sort Of
(From MTV Movies Blog. 20 November 2009, 7:00 AM, PST)
Family Guy Quotes: "Spies Reminiscent of Us"
(From TVfanatic. 12 October 2009, 10:19 AM, PDT)
(From MTV Movies Blog. 20 November 2009, 7:00 AM, PST)
Family Guy Quotes: "Spies Reminiscent of Us"
(From TVfanatic. 12 October 2009, 10:19 AM, PDT)
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Vintage Chevy Chase
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Chevy Chase | ... | Emmett Fitz-Hume |
 | Dan Aykroyd | ... | Austin Millbarge |
 | Steve Forrest | ... | General Sline |
| Donna Dixon | ... | Karen Boyer |
 | Bruce Davison | ... | Ruby |
| Bernie Casey | ... | Colonel Rhumbus |
| William Prince | ... | Keyes |
| Tom Hatten | ... | General Miegs |
 | Frank Oz | ... | Test Monitor |
| Charles McKeown | ... | Jerry Hadley |
| James Daughton | ... | Bob Hodges |
 | Jim Staahl | ... | Bud Schnelker |
 | Vanessa Angel | ... | Russian Rocket Crewperson |
| Svetlana Plotnikova | ... | Russian Rocket Crewperson |
| Bjarne Thomsen | ... | Russian Rocket Crewperson |
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Runtime:
102 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.33 : 1 more
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70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) |
Mono (35 mm prints)
Certification:
Iceland:L |
Australia:PG |
Finland:K-12 |
Norway:12 (1986) |
Sweden:11 |
UK:PG |
USA:PG |
West Germany:12
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Vanessa Angel's first movie role.
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Plot holes: During the "negotiation" scene all Russians are shown as awarded two times Golden Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union which is a highest Soviet award. Assuming they all where awarded by one for "saving the world" it's unlikely to believe they all committed another deed of the same scale before.
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Quotes:
Austin Millbarge:
[Listening to faint music] It's... ”Soul Finger" by the Bar Kays
Emmett Fitz-Hume: They must be havin' a hard time getting gigs.
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Emmett Fitz-Hume: They must be havin' a hard time getting gigs.
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Movie Connections:
Spoofed in "Family Guy: Spies Reminiscent of Us (#8.3)" (2009)
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Soundtrack:
SOUL FINGER
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For Chevy Chase fans, this film displays one of his vintage performances---right up there with a couple of his "Vacation" films and "Fletch." He and Dan Aykroyd form a great comedic duo with great chemistry that will leave you wanting for more.
The setting changes rapidly from DC, to Pakistan, to the former Soviet Union. Chase and Aykroyd are identified as expendable Department of State personnel, and therefore trained as covert agent decoys and tasked with an ultra top-secret mission deep inside Soviet territory. The newly appointed agent/spies don't realize they're decoys, but rather, think they're real agents on a real mission. Good stuff.
Together, their bumbling antics throughout agent training and their top-secret mission are good for steady laughs from beginning to end, as they find themselves playing the "accidental hero" role charged with saving the world.
Very scenic locations, some decent special effects (for the mid-80's), and some serious plot-twists amidst the silly humor enables "Spies Like Us" to hold the viewer's attention in-between comedic situations.