Spies Like Us
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Theatrical release poster illustrated by John Alvin
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| Directed by | John Landis |
| Produced by |
George Folsey, Jr. Brian Grazer |
| Screenplay by |
Dan Aykroyd Lowell Ganz Babaloo Mandel |
| Story by | Dan Aykroyd Dave Thomas |
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| Music by |
Elmer Bernstein Paul McCartney (title song) |
| Cinematography | Robert Paynter |
| Edited by | Malcolm Campbell |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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102 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $22 million (est.) |
| Box office | $60 million |
Spies Like Us is a 1985 American 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 and was later picked up by Warner Bros. with Aykroyd and Chase starring.
The film is an homage to the famous Road to … film series which starred Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. Hope himself makes a cameo in one scene. Other cameos in the film include directors Terry Gilliam, Sam Raimi, Costa-Gavras and Joel Coen, musician B. B. King, and visual effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen.
Austin Millbarge is a basement-dwelling codebreaker 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 attempts to cheat after an attempt to bribe his immediate supervisor in exchange for the answers backfires. Millbarge, however, was forced to take the test, having had only one day to prepare after his supervisor gives him a notice that was two weeks old.
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