Spies Like Us
- MPAA Rating
- PG
- Theatrical Release Date
- Dec 05, 1985
- Genre(s)
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- Fish Out of Water
- Farce
- John Landis
- Terry Gilliam
- Chevy Chase
- Dan Aykroyd
- Comic Action
- Espionage
- Cold War
- Action & Adventure
- Comedy
- Rating (Stars)
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- Description
- Yet another bad movie in a lengthy string of losers for all three of the principals involved here: director John Landis and stars Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase. Chase and Aykroyd play a pair of bumbling would-be CIA agents who are spotted cheating on the entrance exam. So the CIA decides to use them as bait in a mission to flummox the Russians. Lots of pointless slapstick and mugging, but Landis hasn't made a genuinely funny film since Trading Places. Aykroyd and Chase seem smug and self-satisfied (don't they always?), as though they can rest forever on laurels earned during the 1975 season of Saturday Night Live. Look for a gaggle of film directors (Terry Gilliam, Joel Coen, Costa-Gavras) in cameo roles: that's the closest this film comes to cleverness. --Marshall Fine
- Director
- John Landis
- Stars
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- Chevy Chase
- Dan Aykroyd
- Steve Forrest
- Donna Dixon
- Bruce Davison
- Running Time
- 102 minutes
- Original Price
- $12.98
- Current Value
- $2.99
- DVD Features
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- Closed-captioned
- Color
- Dolby
- DVD-Video
- Full Screen
- NTSC
- 1.33:1