Le coup du siècle

Original title: Deal of the Century

1983
PG
1h 39m

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4.7/10

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Sigourney Weaver, Chevy Chase, and Gregory Hines in Le coup du siècle (1983)

Arms dealers from several companies vie to sell the most expensive and highest tech weapons to a South American dictator. There are complications; understanding the exact nature of how 'gifts' are used to grease the wheels of a sale, a religious conversion from one of the salesman and a romance that begins to grow between two competitors, not to mention the imminent financial collapse of one of the companies if they don't make this sale.

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Small-time arms dealer Eddie Muntz visits South America to sell weapons to the revolutionaries and winds up negotiating the sale of an experimental plane to the nation's dictator.Small-time arms dealer Eddie Muntz visits South America to sell weapons to the revolutionaries and winds up negotiating the sale of an experimental plane to the nation's dictator.Small-time arms dealer Eddie Muntz visits South America to sell weapons to the revolutionaries and winds up negotiating the sale of an experimental plane to the nation's dictator.

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IMDb RATING

4.7/10

4.6K

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See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
One of only two films director William Friedkin wrote nothing about, positive or negative, in his memoir The Friedkin Connection (see also La nurse (1990)).

Goofs
At the Peacemaker roll-out. Stryker as well as the technicians commented on the hot weather. Yet, you can see Stryker's breath at the podium (indicating cold weather) just before the Peacemaker attacks.

Quotes
General Huddleston: [watching the Peacemaker malfunction] This is a great day for the Air Force, Senator.
Sen. Bryce: Why is that, General?
General Huddleston: Because the Navy ordered twenty of those disasters.
Navy Officers: Son of a bitch!

Alternate versions
CBS edited 5 minutes from this film for its 1988 network television premiere.

Connections
Featured in At the Movies: Deal of the Century/Richard Pryor Here and Now/Testament/The Dead Zone/The Osterman Weekend (1983)

Soundtracks
Someone To Watch Over Me
Music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin
Sung by Nikka Costa
Courtesy of Renquet Records

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Featured review

5/10

interesting satire

Eddie Muntz (Chevy Chase) is an amoral small-time weapons dealer. He's in San Miguel selling real and unreal weapons to both rebels and the military dictatorship. Ray Kasternak (Gregory Hines) is his work partner. He's approached by Catherine DeVoto (Sigourney Weaver). Her late husband sold drone fighters from American military contractor Luckup and she wants his commissions from the sale. The contract was canceled but the company recruits Ed to sell the Peacemaker drones even though it had a terrible demonstration in front of the US military.

This is good material for an interesting satire. The first fifteen minutes is good satire fun. After that, the story has to take over and the characters have to take over. Sadly, I don't care about these characters or their story. The drone is a great predictor of future war but even that is not enough. It's a long slow decline after a promising start.