Spies Like Us
“With spies like these, who needs enemies?”
Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for nuclear war.
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Cast
53 people
Chevy Chase
Emmett Fitz-Hume
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Community
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Dan Aykroyd
Austin Millbarge
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Ghostbusters
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Steve Forrest
General Sline
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S.W.A.T.
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Donna Dixon
Karen Boyer
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Wayne's World
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Bruce Davison
Ruby
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Knight Rider
X-Men
Terry Gilliam
Dr. Imhaus
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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Life of Brian
Frank Oz
Test Monitor
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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Monsters, Inc.
Vanessa Angel
Russian Rocket Crewperson
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Kingpin
Weird Science
Bernie Casey
Colonel Rhumbus
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In the Mouth of Madness
Never Say Never Again
Charles McKeown
Jerry Hadley
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Life of Brian
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
William Prince
Keyes
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The Gauntlet
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Bob Hope
Self
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The Ghost Breakers
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John Landis Director · Dan Aykroyd Screenplay Lowell Ganz Screenplay
Worldwide gross $60M · Budget $22M · United States release December 6, 1985
Box office
Budget
$22,000,000
Worldwide gross
$60,088,980
Gross vs. budget
2.7×
Production
AAR Films
Production
Warner Bros. Pictures
Production · Studio
The Brillstein Company
Production
United States · United Kingdom
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · Russian
Release dates
Sweden · December 6, 1985
Theatrical
United States · December 6, 1985
Theatrical
Australia
March 6, 1986 · Theatrical
France
July 23, 1986 · Theatrical
Germany
September 11, 1986 · Theatrical
Italy
March 27, 1986 · Theatrical
Japan
April 5, 1986 · Theatrical
Netherlands
March 27, 1986 · Theatrical
April 16, 2002 · Physical · V8
Slovakia
March 14, 1998 · TV · Markíza
United Kingdom
February 14, 1986 · Theatrical
XC
January 1, 1992 · Physical
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