Undercover Blues (1993)

35% of critics liked it
(17 reviews)
56% of users liked it
(8,937 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

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Rating, Runtime: PG-13, 1 hr. 29 min.
Directed By: Herbert Ross
Genres: Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense, Comedy

In Theaters: Sep 10, 1993 Wide
On DVD: Apr 1, 2003
Studio: MGM Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

Vincent Canby, New York Times
The movie has enough style to make you overlook reason and the occasionally erratic continuity.
Jane Horwitz, Washington Post
The script by Ian Abrams brims with overwritten cleverness.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
This empty-headed comedy revels in its own admitted idiocy.
Robert Roten, Laramie Movie Scope
Undercover Blues is one of the best comedies I have seen in a long time.
Clint Morris, Moviehole
Didn't make a dime, but made me laugh!
Steve Rhodes, Internet Reviews
Buy some tickets and give them to your worst enemies.
Hollis Chacona, Austin Chronicle
Chock-full of hilarious performances.
Chris Hicks, Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Some of this is funny, but too much tends to fall flat.
Shane Burridge, rec.arts.movies.reviews
It is the free and easy manner projected by Quaid and Turner that provides this film with its heart

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Wahida K

A cute Movie. A family who Kick A and a lot of LOLs
Dean M

Dennis Quaid and Kathleen Turner are fun and fine as a perfect superspy couple who are called back from their retirement and child-rearing to save the world from a master villainess.
Bill C

A campy Mr. & Mrs. Smith meets Original Pink Panther for the 90’s. Retired spies Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid are married on maternity leave in New Orleans and are trying to settle into normal life with a new born baby. This is fluff, pure comedy and if you go in not taking it… More
A campy Mr. & Mrs. Smith meets Original Pink Panther for the 90’s. Retired spies Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid are married on maternity leave in New Orleans and are trying to settle into normal life with a new born baby. This is fluff, pure comedy and if you go in not taking it serious delivers nothing but fun (and it’s a Instant watch) The most memorable is the sort-of break-out role of Stanley Tucci at Muerte/Morty. As the cold blooded Killer who is tracking them. They thwart him effortlessly at every turn and make him rethink his occupation. Herbert Ross directed this movie as he did another favorite The Secret of My Succe$s. Although His movies vary all over the map, they always develop the main characters where no matter how different the situation you can empathize with them. The first movie I saw that he directed was Seven percent solution A mold breaking Sherlock Holmes picture in the 1970’s
Sean S

Come on! You'd mess with a guy pretentious enough to call himself El Muerte wouldn't you?

Cast

            Kathleen Turner as Jane Blue

            Dennis Quaid as Jeff Blue

            Fiona Shaw as Novacek

            Stanley Tucci as Muerte

            Larry Miller as Detective Sergeant Halsey

            Tom Arnold as Vern Newman

            Obba Babatundé as Sawyer

            Park Overall as Bonnie Newman

            Ralph Brown as Leamington

            Jan Triska as Axel

            Saul Rubinek as Mr. Ferderber

            Jenifer Lewis as Cab Driver

            Michelle Schuelke as Jane Louise Blue

            Marshall Bell as Sikes

            Michael Greene as Colonel Kenton

            Richard Jenkins as Frank Cortese

            Eliott Keener as The Drunk

            Olek Krupa as Zubic

            Julius Le Flore as Novacek's Man

            Dennis Lipscomb as Foster

            Dakin Matthews as Police Captain

            Louis Gregory Robinson Lora as Bar Patron

            Eddie Braun as Getaway Driver

            Chris Ellis as Burt

            Spencer Henderson as Party Guest

            James Lew as Novacek's Man

            Bill McIntosh as Novacek's Man

            Hank McCann
            
            Barry Bedig as Mariner

            Robert Adams as Waiter
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