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30 January 1987 (USA) moreTagline:
The CIA is trailing them. The KGB is tracking them. The phone company is tracing them. The police are chasing them. The cowboys are herding them. And the Indians are hunting them. Are they going to fall for all of that?Plot:
Lauren and Sandy are total opposites who end up in the same acting class and who don't know they are sharing a lover... more | add synopsisAwards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 2 wins moreNewsDesk:
Streep Nom #7-8: The Abundant Riches of 1987-88(From FilmExperience. 5 July 2009, 3:00 PM, PDT)
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Too outrageous! more (28 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Shelley Long | ... | Lauren Ames | |
| Bette Midler | ... | Sandy Brozinsky | |
| Peter Coyote | ... | Michael Sanders | |
| Robert Prosky | ... | Stanislav Korzenowski | |
| John Schuck | ... | Agent Atkins | |
| George Carlin | ... | Frank Madras | |
| Anthony Heald | ... | Weldon | |
| Ji-Tu Cumbuka | ... | Cab driver | |
| Florence Stanley | ... | Ticket agent | |
| Jerry Zaks | ... | Tobacco clerk | |
| John DiSanti | ... | Police lieutenant | |
| Diana Bellamy | ... | Madam | |
| Gary Morgan | ... | Agent Fanansky | |
| Christopher McDonald | ... | George (as Chris McDonald) | |
| J.W. Smith | ... | Gilroy, Dealer #1 |
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Iceland:12 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 | Singapore:NC-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:R | West Germany:12Fun Stuff
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The title is taken from the Shakespearean play "Hamlet", Act 3, Scene 1, line 58, which is the famous "To be or not to be" speech. In the movie, Long's character confesses to a classmate at the beginning of the movie that she someday hopes to play Hamlet. moreGoofs:
Continuity: In the scene where Lauren and Sandy are on the conveyor belt in the bowels of the Albuquerque airport, Lauren throws a suitcase at the CIA agent right before he hits his head on the light fixture. As she picks up the bag, it's a duffel bag. Quickly it changes to a suitcase. By the time it hits his head, it's morphed into yet a third piece of luggage. moreSoundtrack:
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Average 80's formula comedy that delivers just enough for the viewer not to really regret watching this one.It all rides on Long and Miler who carries the film despite too outrageous and clumsily handled gun encounters which were critical for the credibility of the story.Too bad becouse the story had something going for it.Do not expect much but it does ok for Long and Midler fans and for fans of those comedies with action scenes towards the end.....