Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Top Secret!

Movie? What movie?

Top Secret! 1984 Paramount Pictures.
Starring: Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge, Peter Cushing, Omar Sharif
Directors: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker & Jerry Zucker
Buy Top Secret! at Amazon.

Look out, Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker have returned, and they've found a new kid named Val Kilmer to unleash onto the world!

Kilmer, in his first role, plays pop singer Nick Rivers, who goes to East Germany to perform at a festival, and somehow ends up in a resistance movement, helping Hillary (Gutteridge) rescue her captive scientist father.

The film's most notable scene is one in a bookstore that was filmed completely in reverse.

Even though many of the jokes and pop culture references are now pretty dated (Pac-Man, anyone?), it's still a hysterical movie. Recommended.

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