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Spies Like Us
Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for nuclear war.
1985 · Directed by John Landis · 102 min · Comedy · Adventure · 10 frames
Tagline
With spies like these, who needs enemies?
Crew
- Screenplay: Dan Aykroyd, Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel
- Cinematography: Robert Paynter
- Edited by: Malcolm Campbell
- Music: Elmer Bernstein
- Production design: Terry Ackland-Snow, Peter Murton
- Produced by: George Folsey Jr., Brian Grazer
Cast
- Chevy Chase as Emmett Fitz-Hume
- Dan Aykroyd as Austin Millbarge
- Steve Forrest as General Sline
- Donna Dixon as Karen Boyer
- Bruce Davison as Ruby
- Terry Gilliam as Dr. Imhaus
- Frank Oz as Test Monitor
- Vanessa Angel as Russian Rocket Crewperson
- Bernie Casey as Colonel Rhumbus
- Charles McKeown as Jerry Hadley
Production
- Country: United States of America, United Kingdom
- Language: English, Russian
- Studios: AAR Films, Warner Bros. Pictures, The Brillstein Company
- Budget: $22,000,000
- Box office: $60,088,980
- Themes: central intelligence agency (cia), missile, spy, cold war, asia, kgb, bait, farce
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