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Off Limits (1988)

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User Rating: 5.8/10 (710 votes)
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Overview

Director:
Christopher Crowe
Writers:
Christopher Crowe (written by) &
Jack Thibeau (written by)
Release Date:
11 March 1988 (USA) more
Genre:
Action | Thriller | War | Drama more
Tagline:
Being a cop is tough. But in Saigon, 1968, being a cop is crazy.
Plot:
McGriff and Albaby are probably doing the worst law enforcement job in the world - they are plain clothes U.S... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
Largely uninteresting more

Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)

Willem Dafoe ... Buck McGriff

Gregory Hines ... Albaby Perkins
Fred Ward ... Dix

Amanda Pays ... Nicole
Kay Tong Lim ... Lime Green

Scott Glenn ... Colonel Dexter Armstrong
David Alan Grier ... Rogers

Keith David ... Maurice
Raymond O'Connor ... Elgin Flowers

Richard Brooks ... Preacher
Thuy An Luu ... Lanh (as Thuy Ann Luu)
Richard Lee Reed ... Colonel Sparks
Woody Brown ... Co-Pilot
Ken Siu ... Plowboy
Viladda Vanadurongwan ... Sister Agnes
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Saigon (UK)
Saigon: Off Limits (Philippines: English title)
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Runtime:
102 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (DeLuxe)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
UK:18 (video rating) (cut) | Belgium:KNT (original rating) | USA:R (certificate #28772) | UK:18 (original rating) | Australia:R | Iceland:16 | Finland:K-16 | Norway:15 | Sweden:15 | West Germany:16
Filming Locations:
Bangkok, Thailand
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Goofs:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: Just before Gregory Hines takes a hold of the crying baby, a glimpse shot of its face is seen and the child is clearly not upset. more
Quotes:
[a standoff between U.S. Military Police and South Vietnamese Police]
Lime Green: I am afraid you are outgunned today.
Dix: You still don't get it, do you? We're never outgunned!
[a helicopter appears]
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Movie Connections:
Remade as Cop Game (1988) more
Soundtrack:
It's a Man's Man's Man's World more

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1 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
Largely uninteresting, 23 August 2002
6/10
Author: Alex Brown (alex_brown@blueyonder.co.uk) from Woking, England

From early on in this film, you got the feeling that this was destined to fall into the love story between Willem Dafoe and the cute nun.

Colourful indeed!

Dafoe and his partner Gregory Hinds are investigating murders of prostitutes in Saigon, who have all been killed by an American GI. It's their job to find which one.

Competently scripted, reasonably directed and acted, this is another in the line of harmless enough Vietnam films of the time, that are neither particularly good nor particularly bad.

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