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Spy Hard (1996)

Spy Hard (1996)
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The first of several sight gag and slapstick-rich comedies he produced without the team of Jerry Zucker, David Zucker, and Jim Abrahams, this lowbrow comedy from executive producer and star Leslie Nielsen suffers by comparison to his work with the "ZAZ" team. Nielsen plays Dick Steele, secret agent WD-40, called out of retirement to stop the world-conquering plans of his old nemesis, General Rancor (Andy Griffith), an armless madman determined to avenge himself upon Steele (who is responsible for Rancor's lack of appendages). With the help of Russian agent Veronique Ukrinsky (Nicolette Sheridan), Steele prepares to battle Rancor at his tropical island lair, where the daughter of Steele's long-ago love is being held captive. Along the way, such films as True Lies (1994), Speed (1994), Jurassic Park (1993), Pulp Fiction (1994), and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) are spoofed. Director Richard Friedberg had previously directed Nielsen in a series of automobile rental commercials and goofy "how-to" golf videos. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi

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Starring:
Leslie Nielsen, Nicollette Sheridan, (more)
Director(s):
Rick Friedberg
Theatrical MPAA Rating:
PG13
Format(s):
DVD
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Synopsis of Spy Hard

The first of several sight gag and slapstick-rich comedies he produced without the team of Jerry Zucker, David Zucker, and Jim Abrahams, this lowbrow comedy from executive producer and star Leslie Nielsen suffers by comparison to his work with the "ZAZ" team. Nielsen plays Dick Steele, secret agent WD-40, called out of retirement to stop the world-conquering plans of his old nemesis, General Rancor (Andy Griffith), an armless madman determined to avenge himself upon Steele (who is responsible for Rancor's lack of appendages). With the help of Russian agent Veronique Ukrinsky (Nicolette Sheridan), Steele prepares to battle Rancor at his tropical island lair, where the daughter of Steele's long-ago love is being held captive. Along the way, such films as True Lies (1994), Speed (1994), Jurassic Park (1993), Pulp Fiction (1994), and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) are spoofed. Director Richard Friedberg had previously directed Nielsen in a series of automobile rental commercials and goofy "how-to" golf videos. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi

Theatrical Feature Running Time:
81 mins

Complete Cast of Spy Hard


Director(s):
Rick Friedberg
Writer(s):
Rick Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer, Jason Friedberg
Producer(s):
Rick Friedberg, Jeffrey Konvitz, Doug Draizin
Theatrical MPAA Rating:
PG13(Questionable for Children, Adult Humor)
Categories:
Comedy
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    Wes P.

    Leslie Nielsen is one person who is great for comedies. Unlike most comedies he is in what I like to call (Random Humor) this movie is more like hot shots. They have many jokes that go on for about 3-5 seconds, one in which I loved. When the henchmen are told to use a silencer while they have an anti-aircraft gun at someones head, they just put a pillow in front of it. If you like this movie with the armless villain you should see wrongfully accused, when one of the villains is a one armed, one eyed, one legged man.

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    Anthony C.

    After seeing many movies like this, I thought that this was very similar to Austin Powers and most of L. N.'s movies. Very good, a true must see.

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    Daniel S.

    my disc was messed up just enough it would hang and skip, garble the audio, a couple of times it was pixalated for just a split second but other than that it was his normal off the wall funny spoof type humor

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