Undercover Blues (1993)
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35% of critics liked it
(17 reviews) -
57% of users liked it
(9,087 ratings)
Nick and Nora Charles are updated to a touchy-feely couple of the 1990s who take a break from the action to raise their eleven-month-old child. Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid star as Jane and Jeff Blue, two CIA super-agents who have abandoned the daily grind to devote quality time to their baby… More Nick and Nora Charles are updated to a touchy-feely couple of the 1990s who take a break from the action to raise their eleven-month-old child. Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid star as Jane and Jeff Blue, two CIA super-agents who have abandoned the daily grind to devote quality time to their baby but find trouble on vacation in New Orleans. First a group of muggers try to take advantage of Jeff as he walks down the street with his baby in tow. Jeff teaches the boys a humiliating lesson, but one of the creepy bad guys, Muerte (Stanley Tucci), vows revenge, and he spends the rest of the movie dogging Jeff and Jane and getting kicked in the teeth in the process. But Muerte is small potatoes compared to Novacek (Fiona Shaw), a former Czech agent. Convinced to return to work by their superiors, Jeff and Jane have to catch Novacek red-handed buying illegal explosives from a New Orleans traitor so that the government can send her back to the Czech republic. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
- Directed By
- Herbert Ross
- Genres
- Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense, Comedy
- In Theaters
- Sep 10, 1993 Wide
- Studio
- MGM Home Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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Vincent Canby, New York Times
The movie has enough style to make you overlook reason and the occasionally erratic continuity.
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Jane Horwitz, Washington Post
The script by Ian Abrams brims with overwritten cleverness.
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James Berardinelli, ReelViews
This empty-headed comedy revels in its own admitted idiocy.
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Robert Roten, Laramie Movie Scope
Undercover Blues is one of the best comedies I have seen in a long time.
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Clint Morris, Moviehole
Didn't make a dime, but made me laugh!
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Cast
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Kathleen Turner
as Jane Blue
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Dennis Quaid
as Jeff Blue
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Fiona Shaw
as Novacek
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Stanley Tucci
as Muerte
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Larry Miller
as Detective Sergeant Halsey
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Tom Arnold
as Vern Newman
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Obba Babatundé
as Sawyer
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Park Overall
as Bonnie Newman
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Ralph Brown
as Leamington
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Jan Triska
as Axel
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Saul Rubinek
as Mr. Ferderber
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Jenifer Lewis
as Cab Driver
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Michelle Schuelke
as Jane Louise Blue
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Marshall Bell
as Sikes
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Michael Greene
as Colonel Kenton
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Richard Jenkins
as Frank Cortese
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Eliott Keener
as The Drunk
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Olek Krupa
as Zubic
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Julius Le Flore
as Novacek's Man
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Dennis Lipscomb
as Foster
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Dakin Matthews
as Police Captain
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Louis Gregory Robinson Lora
as Bar Patron
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Eddie Braun
as Getaway Driver
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Chris Ellis
as Burt
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Spencer Henderson
as Party Guest
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James Lew
as Novacek's Man
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Bill McIntosh
as Novacek's Man
- Hank McCann
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Barry Bedig
as Mariner
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Robert Adams
as Waiter
