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 Chase starring.The film is an homage to the famous Road to
… film series which starred Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. Hope himself
makes a cameo in one scene. Other cameos in the film include directors
Terry Gilliam, Sam Raimi, Costa-Gavras, Martin Brest, and Joel Coen,
musician B.B. King, and visual effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen.Austin
Millbarge is a basement-dwelling codebreaker at the Pentagon who
aspires to escape his under-respected job to become a secret agent.
Emmett Fitz-Hume, a wisecracking, pencil-pushing son of an envoy,
takes the foreign service exam under peer pressure. Millbarge and
Fitz-Hume meet during the test, on which Fitz-Hume openly attempts to
cheat after an attempt to bribe 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 two-week-old notice leaving him vulnerable to fail and having to
stay in the Pentagon trenches.Needing expendable agents to act as
decoys to draw attention away from a more capable team, the 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 SS-50 ICBM launcher. The main team takes a loss,
while Millbarge and Fitz-Hume escape enemy attacks and eventually
encounter Karen Boyer, the only surviving operative from the main
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