Spies Like Us

Comedy

Dan Aykroyd	Austin Millbarge
Chevy Chase	Emmett Fitz-Hume
Bruce Davison	Mr. Ruby
Donna Dixon	Karen Boyer
Steve Forrest	Gen. Sline
Charles McKeown	Jerry Hadley
Bernie Casey	Col. Rhumbus
William Prince	Mr. Keyes
Tom Hatten	Gen. Miegs
Edwin Newman	Himself

Director	John Landis
Producer	Brian Grazer; George Fosley, Jr.
Writer	Lowell Ganz; Babaloo Mandel
Cinematography	Robert Paynter
Musician	Elmer Bernstein

In this 80s comedy, directed by John Landis, Emmett Fitzhume (Dan Aykroyd) and Austin Millbarge (Chevy Chase) are two deadbeats who are caught cheating at a CIA entrance exam. Instead of punishment or eviction, they are sent as decoys on a pointless mission to divert the attention of the Russians from a genuine operation. Aykroyd plays the codebreaking genius/nerd, while Chase is the wilder and more savvy of the two. Their 'mission' takes them through Pakistan and Tadzhikistan, on a series of entertaining bumbles and scrapes - blissfully unaware of the authentic mission taking place at the same time, which proves to be less successful than hoped. In Tadzhikistan our two no-hopers successfully locate the underground nuclear bunker, and the chaos that ensues includes them launching a missile aimed at the US! This is a family film in the tradition of earlier road- and buddy-movies.