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The Man with One Red Shoe (1985)
Director: Stan Dragoti
Cast: Tom Hanks, Lori Singer, Dabney Coleman, Carrie Fisher, Jim Belushi
Genre: Comedy Mystery
I watched this for Carrie Fisher. I had only seen her in the Star Wars movies and wanted to see more of her work. She didn't make a lot of big name movies besides Star Wars, but she did a lot of film work and here in this 1985 comedy I seen a different side to her. First off she appears in glasses and a dowdy dress, I didn't even recognize her!
She plays the wife of Jim Belushi who's best friends to a very young looking Tom Hanks...he looks like a kid here. Carrie has a fling with Tom and the 'other side' of her is her Tarzan and Jane costume...a leopard print bikini, none the less!....Wow, she was tiny, I never realized just how petite she was in Star Wars, she was only 5' 1". I have to say she did a really good job of acting here.
Tom Hanks is the star and man did he look young! This was made a couple years after Hank's break through film Splash (1984)...but before his other mega big hit, Big (1988). This is a comedy and Hanks is likable as the everyday guy who stumbles into a CIA clandestine plot. The CIA mistakes him for a top notch spy, but he's just another Joe....err...I mean Tom.
A fun movie if...you don't expect much. This is just a light comedy spy mystery-thriller. The best part is when Lori Singer who's a CIA operative, lures Tom Hanks into her apartment, which has a full glass mirror so that the CIA can observe her, umm activities...It was funny when she gets her long hair caught in his zipper, ouch! An easy watch, that made me chuckle at times.
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The Man with One Red Shoe (1985)
Cast: Tom Hanks, Lori Singer, Dabney Coleman, Carrie Fisher, Jim Belushi
Genre: Comedy Mystery
I watched this for Carrie Fisher. I had only seen her in the Star Wars movies and wanted to see more of her work. She didn't make a lot of big name movies besides Star Wars, but she did a lot of film work and here in this 1985 comedy I seen a different side to her. First off she appears in glasses and a dowdy dress, I didn't even recognize her!
She plays the wife of Jim Belushi who's best friends to a very young looking Tom Hanks...he looks like a kid here. Carrie has a fling with Tom and the 'other side' of her is her Tarzan and Jane costume...a leopard print bikini, none the less!....Wow, she was tiny, I never realized just how petite she was in Star Wars, she was only 5' 1". I have to say she did a really good job of acting here.
Tom Hanks is the star and man did he look young! This was made a couple years after Hank's break through film Splash (1984)...but before his other mega big hit, Big (1988). This is a comedy and Hanks is likable as the everyday guy who stumbles into a CIA clandestine plot. The CIA mistakes him for a top notch spy, but he's just another Joe....err...I mean Tom.
A fun movie if...you don't expect much. This is just a light comedy spy mystery-thriller. The best part is when Lori Singer who's a CIA operative, lures Tom Hanks into her apartment, which has a full glass mirror so that the CIA can observe her, umm activities...It was funny when she gets her long hair caught in his zipper, ouch! An easy watch, that made me chuckle at times.
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