Spies Like Us 1985

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 98 min

genre: comedy

theme: spy

director: John Landis

Score: 6 / 10

Spies Like Us is a 1985 American spy comedy film directed by John Landis, and starring Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Forrest, and Donna Dixon. The film presents the comic adventures of two novice intelligence agents sent to the Soviet Union. Originally written by Aykroyd and Dave Thomas to star Aykroyd and John Belushi at Universal, the script went into turnaround following Belushi's 1982 death and was later picked up by Warner Bros., starring Aykroyd and Chase.

Plot

Austin Millbarge is a code breaker dwelling in the dark basement at the Pentagon who aspires to escape his under-respected job to become a secret agent. Emmett Fitz-Hume, a wisecracking, pencil-pushing son of an envoy, takes the foreign service exam under peer pressure. Millbarge and Fitz-Hume meet during the test, on which Fitz-Hume openly cheats after his attempts to bribe his female supervisor and the test monitor in exchange for the answers both fail. Millbarge was not prepared to take the test, having had only one night to study after his supervisor deliberately withheld a two-weeks notice for the exam, leaving him vulnerable to fail and having to remain in the bowels of the Pentagon.

Cast

More details

author	Babaloo Mandel Dan Aykroyd Dave Thomas Lowell Ganz
contentLocation	Afghanistan Soviet Union
director	John Landis
editor	Malcolm Campbell
genre	action adventure comedy
keywords	abandon anti-ballistic missile arrest black-op black operation contingency plan covert operation defense intelligence agency drive-in theater dwell end horrify icbm intelligence agency intercontinental ballistic missile kill missile guidance nuclear disarmament nuclear missile nuclear war one night pakistan pamir mountains peer pressure pentagon risk sdi secret agent soviet central asia strategic defense initiative survival training survive tajik soviet socialist republic their way think train trivial pursuit twist u.s. army rangers united states army rangers way of life wisecrack
musicBy	Elmer Bernstein
producer	Brian Grazer
productionCompany	Warner Bros.
publisher	Columbia–EMI–Warner Distributors Warner Bros.
recordedAt	Morocco Norway
theme	action comedy buddy comedy spy spy comedy