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- Regie
- Drehbuch
- Hauptbesetzung
- Brown
- (as Ed Herrmann)
- CIA Agent
- (as Julius J. Carry III)
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As Tom Hanks himself acknowledges, the movie is not that good. The plot is okay, but a bit convoluted. The comedy is more often of the absurd kind, and I am not sure it always succeeds. Jim Belushi is rather the strong point of the comedy parts. Also, as 1980s movies end to do, a romance is thrown in for some reason... it seems somewhat forced.
What makes this movie worth watching, despite the "blah" of the overall plot and comedy, is the ensemble cast. Tom Hanks may be the star, but he probably doesn't have 50% of the screen time, because he is sharing it with Dabney Coleman, Jim Belushi, Carrie Fisher (in a small role), Charles Durning, Ed Hermann, Lori Singer, Gerrit Graham and more I'm not recalling at the moment. It is a truly impressive cast.
I don't suppose anyone knows much about what makes us laugh, but like yesterday's stock market results, everyone seems to have an opinion about failed comedy. This is a classic failed comedy, regardless of whether you thought the original French film successful.
The story is that a crew of trained professionals mistakenly assume one thing and then grind that conclusion quite literally to death. The same thing happened to the crew that made this stinker.
The women are marginally interesting. Lori singer was a real string player; here she plays the prostituting spy to a string player. Carrie Fisher was deep into her skinny drugged out highly sexed period and plays someone much the same (with a reference to Princess Leia and the wookie).
Hanks only once in a rare while really tries to act. This isn't one of those times. My own theory is that he needs a challenging director.
Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.
Wusstest du schon
- WissenswertesDavid Ogden Stiers plays the conductor of the symphony orchestra where Richard plays violin. Stiers has worked as a guest conductor with real-life symphony orchestras.
- PatzerThe assassins in the film used revolvers with silencers. It is nearly impossible to silence a revolver, due to the gap between the revolving cylinder and the barrel, which allows sound waves to escape.
- Zitate
Hulse: Here's where he varied from the program. That has to be the message. We fed the notes into the computer.
Cooper: [reading] "ARDIE BETGO INDYO CEFAR OGGEL." What the hell is this?
Hulse: I don't know.
Carson: Oh, come on, can't you see? He's rubbing our noses in it! Let's just pick him up and put an end to it.
Cooper: [frowning] Is this "cefar oh-gle" or "cefar oggle"?
Hulse: Oh-gle.
Cooper: "Oh-gle"?
Hulse: Could be "oggle."
- Crazy CreditsThe billing for the film's source French film Der große Blonde mit dem schwarzen Schuh (1972) omits the title, stating only, "Based on the motion picture written by Francis Veber and Yves Robert".
- Alternative VersionenThe video version in 1986 was cut by 5 seconds in order to receive a "PG" rating from the BBFC with edits made to shots of workmen sniffing white powder from a cocaine-covered car during the opening sequence. In 2004 all cuts were reinstated and the video was re-rated "15".
- SoundtracksLove Theme
Written by Michael Masser
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Details
Box Office
- Budget
- 16.000.000 $ (geschätzt)
- Bruttoertrag in den USA und Kanada
- 8.645.411 $
- Eröffnungswochenende in den USA und in Kanada
- 3.139.015 $
- 21. Juli 1985
- Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
- 8.645.411 $