Touché!

Original title: Gotcha!

1985
PG-13
1h 41m

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6.2/10

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Anthony Edwards and Linda Fiorentino in Touché! (1985)

Jonathan plays Gotcha with fellow college students, testing ability as assassin or mark, using paintball guns on campus. He flies to Paris on vacation and, with a woman taking his virginity, on to Berlin, where the game/ammo gets real.

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An 18-year-old college student travels to Paris with a friend on vacation. There, he meets Sasha, a young Eastern European woman who seduces him into following her to East Germany, where he ... Read allAn 18-year-old college student travels to Paris with a friend on vacation. There, he meets Sasha, a young Eastern European woman who seduces him into following her to East Germany, where he slowly discovers the truth about her occupation.An 18-year-old college student travels to Paris with a friend on vacation. There, he meets Sasha, a young Eastern European woman who seduces him into following her to East Germany, where he slowly discovers the truth about her occupation.

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IMDb RATING

6.2/10

9.8K

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See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
According to the book "Spies and Sleuths: Mystery, Spy and Suspense Films on Videocassette" (1988), the filmmakers were forbidden to enter the then official borderline between East Germany and West Germany, a zone which was located about ten feet in front of the Berlin Wall. As such, "because the production was not allowed to cross into East Berlin, an exact replica of the wall from the eastern point of view had to be built just a few feet in front of the west side".

Goofs
When leaving the DDR by foot the border guard asks Jonathon "What was your purpose of visit to East Berlin?" - East Berlin was never referred to as "East" by the DDR as this would lend recognition to the occupying forces of the other side - they would have said just "Berlin" or "Berlin Haupstadt der DDR" (capital of the DDR)- they referred to West Berlin as "Westberlin" or "Berlin (west)"

Quotes
[Jonathan has just crossed from East Berlin to West Berlin and is meeting with an American MP]
Jonathan: Am I in West Berlin now?
M.P.: You sure are.
Jonathan: [looking back at East Berlin and giving it the finger] Fuck you!
[looking back to the M.P]
Jonathan: Good night.
[heads off]
M.P.: [looking at Jonathan, then looking at East Berlin] I've been wanting to do that for the last six months.

Alternate versions
Singapore version cut by 2 minutes for a PG rating.

Connections
Featured in At the Movies: Girls Just Want to Have Fun/Code of Silence/Gotcha!/Rustlers' Rhapsody (1985)

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Gotcha
Performed by Thereza Bazar

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Comedy Thriller that nostalgically hoists East German KGB agents as the bad guys!!

What can I say, but this is one of those "eighties movies" featuring Anthony Edwards before he was "Goose" and Linda Fiorentino before she was that chick in M.I.B.

Plot Summary: A paintball enthusiast utilizes his finely tuned skill at hiding behind things when he gets involved with a CIA courier working behind the Iron Curtain. East Germany meets West L.A. with some really funny stereo-types that weren't all that tired when this movie came out in '85.

This film is primarily aimed at entertaining young men with a 007 lust. Still, there are so many one-liners and funny bits that my sister and I still make references to this movie when joking around, e.g. "I thought he was KGB from Russia." ~ "He's a CPA from Encino! Are you outta your mind?"

The utilization of various on-location landmarks make it fun and almost like a travelogue movie. There's a German fortress, the Louvre (pre-pyramid entrance), the eiffel tower, the UCLA campus, Olvera Street in Downtown L.A., and the Bonnaventure Hotel.

I also love this movie for introducing me to Pernod, and the scene in which it is introduced is so funny I can still remember it line for line!! I love this movie!!