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Touché!

Original title: Gotcha!
  • 1985
  • PG-13
  • 1h 41m
IMDb RATING
6.2/10
9.9K
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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.

  • Director
    • Jeff Kanew
  • Writers
    • Paul G. Hensler
    • Dan Gordon
  • Stars
    • Anthony Edwards
    • Linda Fiorentino
    • Jsu Garcia
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.2/10
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    • Director
      • Jeff Kanew
    • Writers
      • Paul G. Hensler
      • Dan Gordon
    • Stars
      • Anthony Edwards
      • Linda Fiorentino
      • Jsu Garcia
    • 42User reviews
    • 20Critic reviews
    • 38Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Anthony Edwards
    Anthony Edwards
    • Jonathan
    Linda Fiorentino
    Linda Fiorentino
    • Sasha
    Jsu Garcia
    Jsu Garcia
    • Manolo
    • (as Nick Corri)
    Alex Rocco
    Alex Rocco
    • Al
    Marla Adams
    Marla Adams
    • Maria
    Klaus Löwitsch
    Klaus Löwitsch
    • Vlad
    • (as Klaus Loewitsch)
    Christopher Rydell
    Christopher Rydell
    • Bob Jensen
    Christie Claridge
    • Girl Student
    Brad Cowgill
    • Reilly
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    David Wohl
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    Muriel Dubrulle
    • Paris Blonde
    Tiina Maria
    • Heidi
    Francis Lemaire
    • Waiter
    Marie Carlman
    • Hotel Girl
    Ayshea Leigh
    • Cabaret Singer
    • Director
      • Jeff Kanew
    • Writers
      • Paul G. Hensler
      • Dan Gordon
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    Coxer99

    Gotcha!

    Sharp action-comedy with Edwards starring as an American college student in East Germany who undergoes a strange sequence of events which lead to his involvement with the C.I.A. Fine mix of humor and suspense, plus sexy Fiorentino as Edwards' love interest is worth the watch.
    7fissiruhl

    80,s cold-war cult

    This movie is a real 80,s movie but in a positive way. It also brings back those memories of the cold war that used to be. Especially in East-Berlin the movie becomes tense. Besides tense the movie is also quite funny.Anthony Edwards is well-cast as the young man being whirled into the wicked world of espionage behind the Iron Curtain, and I can´t help falling in love with Linda Fiorentino..That woman is so seductive and sexy in a strange mysterious way. She, and the border-tension of East Berlin, is my main reason for really liking this movie...They don´t make´em like this any more....Its Spy Game of the 80,s...
    7Hey_Sweden

    An amiable melding of spy thriller and romantic comedy.

    Reteaming with director Jeff Kanew one year after "Revenge of the Nerds", the amiable Anthony Edwards plays another socially awkward college student. Jonathan Moore (Edwards), master of a campus paintball game called "Gotcha!", travels to Europe with his friend / roommate Manolo (Jsu Garcia). In Paris he meets an alluring Czech woman named Sasha (Linda Fiorentino) who ends his days as a virgin. But she also draws him into danger by involving him in espionage; they are soon pursued by a ferocious-looking Russian goon (played by German actor Klaus Lowitsch).

    Although interest did wane for this viewer at times, he found this to be a fairly engaging Cold War era movie overall. Kanew manages a fairly light tone at first, and prevents the movie from ever getting *too* grim by coming up with some funny comic bits of business. (Such as Jonathan disguising himself as a punk rocker to avoid detection by the bad guys.). The pacing and the action scenes are reasonably well handled, but what really perks up a lot of scenes are the international locales used.

    The tantalizingly sexy Fiorentino is effective as the stranger whom we automatically suspect isn't playing it completely straight with Jonathan. She and the boyish Edwards do have good chemistry, and he also seems to get on well with Garcia (whom you'll recognize as Rod Lane from the previous years' horror classic "A Nightmare on Elm Street"). Alex Rocco and Marla Adams do fine as the well-off parents who refuse to believe their sons' outlandish story, and assume that he's on drugs. Lowitsch is a decent if underdeveloped villain.

    The story isn't fleshed out all that much; for one thing, we never do find out the full importance of the object of everyones' interest. Still, the movie does build towards a pretty bright finish, and is basically slick, decent entertainment for fans of the two stars.

    Seven out of 10.
    6lost-in-limbo

    "I would kill and die to make love to you."

    Quite an appealing and quirky, if dated (with its politics) mid-eighties teen romantic comedy-thriller set mainly in Europe and starring a young Anthony Edwards as a college sophomore who's simply an ace at a campus assassination game known as Gotcha, although he can't seem to score with the girls. He hopes that this would change when he travels to Europe for a summer vacation and things do turn out for him when he meets a young lady Sasha. Everything is going well, until they travel to East Berlin where he learns she is not all that she seems. She disappears and he finds himself on the run from some Russian spies who believe he has something they want. "Gotcha!" starts off like your typical simple minded teen comedy, before slowly setting the situation up (dangerous spy games) and then having the novelty (our hero being a pro with a paint gun) ending in an ironically smart manner. Director Jeff Kanew (who was behind "Revenge of the Nerds") does a workable job blending its romantic shades (which familiarly plays out its message) with the lethal action in some amusingly funny exchanges (like those scenes involving the worried parents; "You had to let him go to Europe"!) and thrilling on-the-run scenarios. The script is sharply penned with its dialogues. A likable Edwards is perfectly cast in lead role as the naïve hero who actually becomes a target for real and Linda Fiorentino is ravishingly mysterious as the lady who he falls for. Gotta love the title song too… it has a catchy hook and also showing up in the cast is Alex Rocco.

    "It's just a game."
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    This movie has everything you need for a fun video rental night.

    It's got action, it's got sex, it's got humor, and most of all, it's got a college kid who seems to be able to outsmart highly trained German spies. Everyone loves it when a complete loser, virgin college guy gets duped by his spy girlfriend to be the patsy for a large coup involving other spies, CIA, and the FBI. And what better way to show Anthony Edwards beat all of these people than with a mere animal tranquilizer gun. See it, if just for the "Yes, I am a weergin" line.

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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)
    • Soundtracks
      Gotcha
      Performed by Thereza Bazar

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    • Release date
      • September 18, 1985 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • German
      • Russian
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Touché
    • Filming locations
      • Zitadelle, Spandau, Berlin, Germany
    • Production company
      • Universal Pictures
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $10,806,919
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $2,360,484
      • May 5, 1985
    • Gross worldwide
      • $10,806,919
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 41 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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