Spies Like Us

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 Chevy Chase starring.

Austin Millbarge is a geekish, basementdwelling codebreaker for The Pentagon who aspires to escape his underrespected job to become a secret agent. Emmett FitzHume, a wisecracking, pencilpushing son of an envoy, takes the foreign service exam under peer pressure. Millbarge and FitzHume meet during the test, on which FitzHume openly attempts to cheat after an attempt to seduce 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.Needing expendable agents to act as decoys to draw attention away from a more capable team, the Defense Intelligence Agency DIA decides to enlist the two, promote them to be Foreign Service Operatives, put them through minimal training, and then send them on an undefined mission into Soviet Central Asia. Meanwhile, professional agents are well on their way to reaching the real objective the seizure of a mobile SS50 ICBM launcher. The main team takes a loss, while Millbarge and FitzHume miraculously escape enemy traps, attacks, and other certain perils. Eventually the bumbling pair encounter Karen Boyer, the only surviving operative from the main team. ........

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