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Cast
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| Gene Hackman | ... | Walter Lloyd / Duncan (Duke) Potter | |
| Matt Dillon | ... | Chris Lloyd / Derek Potter | |
| Gayle Hunnicutt | ... | Donna Lloyd | |
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Randy Moore | ... | Tour Director |
| Ilona Grübel | ... | Carla (as Ilona Grubel) | |
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Tomas Hnevsa | ... | Henke |
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Jean-Pol Dubois | ... | Glasses |
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Robert Ground | ... | Marine Sergeant |
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Véronique Guillaud | ... | Secretary American Consulate |
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Charlotte Bailey | ... | Receptionist |
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James Selby | ... | Ross |
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Ray Fry | ... | Mason |
| Josef Sommer | ... | Taber | |
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Jacques Mignot | ... | Madison Hotel Clerk |
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Robert Liensol | ... | Cafe Vendor |
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Chris Lloyd does NOT get along with his father Walter. Walter is too careful, cautious, and boring to Chris, and never tries anything new, and Chris had to live by the same standards when he was growing up. But when his mother is kidnapped while in Europe, to Chris's confusion, Walter suddenly turns into a man of action. Just who is his father anyway. Written by Brian W Martz <B.Martz@Genie.com>
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Country:
USARelease Date:
8 November 1985 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Target - Entführt in Paris See more »Edit
Box Office
Budget:
$13,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$2,670,522, 10 November 1985Gross USA:
$9,023,199Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$9,023,199Company Credits
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Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Music by Harold Arlen
Sung by Billy Daniels
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Some movie posters for this film featured a long text preamble that read: "Nothing exciting ever happened in Chris' family. But within 48 hours, his mother will be kidnapped, His father will be forced to reveal a secret past and he will find himself at the center of an adventure he never dreamed could happen to him". See more »Goofs
When Chris leaves the US embassy in Berlin, he takes a mercedes cab. He does not change cabs but the used cars change several times and one of them has even French registration plates. See more »Soundtracks
That Old Black MagicLyrics by Johnny Mercer
Music by Harold Arlen
Sung by Billy Daniels
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This movie is a family drama and a spy thriller at the same time. It is also a comedy that makes some fun of both genres, although I am not sure if that is intentional.
The acting and the direction are quite good, the screenplay and maybe the editing less so. I suppose the main error is the decision to tell the story from the father's and the son's perspective alternatively. I think it would have been much better and thrilling to tell it from the son's entirely (but in that case maybe it would have been impossible to use a big star in the father's role). The viewers become aware of the father's double-identity much earlier than the son in an incident at the airport that is unexpected, weird, outlandish and laughable. I really did not understand what was going on. The effect of surprise was thus given away pretty cheaply. I also think that the whole plot did not really make much sense including the long dewiring of the human bomb mother at the end. Too much remains unexplained.
But on the whole this is nevertheless a quite atmospheric movie with beautiful locations in Paris, France and Germany. The highlight is a chase sequence through the town of Hamburg which involves a small red Fiat car, a Mercedes taxicab and a small, spluttering three-wheel vehicle. Hackman jumps into a canal and Dillon drives the Fiat up some pretty steep flights of stairs. So I do not think I wasted my time entirely.
To any viewer interested in Hackman playing a dad, I can highly recommend the movie Class Action in which a brilliant Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio plays his daughter.