Jonathan Moore (Edwards) is a shy UCLA veterinary student and the reigning champion at 'Gotcha', a campus-wide paintball game. While on vacation in West Germany, he's seduced by an older woman, the sexy and mysterious Sasha (Fiorentino) who turns out to be an international spy. When he returns home to LA, there's a strange .. Read more
| Starring | Anthony Edwards, Linda Fiorentino |
|---|---|
| Director | Jeff Kanew |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama |
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Jonathan Moore (Edwards) is a shy UCLA veterinary student and the reigning champion at 'Gotcha', a campus-wide paintball game. While on vacation in West Germany, he's seduced by an older woman, the sexy and mysterious Sasha (Fiorentino) who turns out to be an international spy. When he returns home to LA, there's a strange canister of film in his backpack and a team of KGB agents on his back. Suddenly he's in the middle of a real life-or-death game of 'Gotcha' and every turn brings a brand new and often hilarious twist!
| Starring | Anthony Edwards, Linda Fiorentino |
|---|---|
| Director | Jeff Kanew |
| Studio | UCA |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 36 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 01 Jun 2009 Production year: 1985 |
| Format | DVD |
An uninspired, if watchable hybrid of the teen wish-fulfilment comedy and substandard John le Carré. A youthful Anthony Edwards impresses as a shy college kid who embarks upon a European vacation and gets involved with a spy ring, while Linda Fiorentino's turn as a sultry spy leaves one pondering why it took so long for her to blossom into a star. We've all seen it before — innocent abroad has an affair with a sophisticated older woman. However director Jeff Kanew offers plenty of frantic scurrying about and sharp one-liners to paper over the elements of déjà vu, if little in the way of actual danger and suspense. Put simply, it's diet Hitchcock.
Funny and enormously entertaining, it's a delightful romantic-comedy adventure...
as a film I remember well from my youth I have got to say it aint changed, Dont expect your clasic James Bond but as a film from the BRAT PACK years you cant knock it, you could do worse but not much better well bar Breakfast Club
This film, I loved it in the eighties. The first half is a little slower than I remember but still a cracking evenings entertainment.