Spy Hard
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| Directed by | Rick Friedberg |
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| Produced by | Doug Draizin Jeffrey Konvitz Rick Friedberg |
| Written by | Rick Friedberg Dick Chudnow Aaron Seltzer Jason Friedberg |
| Starring | Leslie Nielsen Nicollette Sheridan Marcia Gay Harden Charles Durning Andy Griffith |
| Music by | Bill Conti |
| Cinematography | John R. Leonetti |
| Editing by | Eric Sears |
| Distributed by | Hollywood Pictures |
| Release date(s) | May 24, 1996 |
| Running time | 81 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $18 million USD |
| Gross revenue | $26,906,039 USD (USA) |
Spy Hard is a 1996 movie starring Leslie Nielsen and Nicollette Sheridan, parodying James Bond films and other action films.
The title itself is a spoof of Die Hard which is never actually lampooned in the film itself.[citation needed]
Many critics panned the film; the film's gross domestic revenues were approximately $26 million.[citation needed]
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Premise
The plot is the standard story of secret agent Dick Steele, Agent WD-40 (a play on 007) who, along with Veronique Ukrinsky, Agent 3.14 (Nicollette Sheridan), must stop the evil genius, General Rancor played by (Andy Griffith), from taking over the world. Rancor was wounded in an earlier encounter and no longer has arms; however, he can 'arm' himself by attaching robotic limbs with various weapons attached.
Title sequence
"Weird Al" Yankovic sings the title song and directed the title sequence. It is a parody of title sequences from the James Bond films designed by Maurice Binder, specifically 1965's Thunderball, complete with multiple colored backgrounds, silhouetted figures, women dancing with guns, and "wavy" text. Additionally, an urban legend states that during the recording of the theme to Thunderball, Tom Jones held the song's final note long enough to pass out. Originally, Yankovic had planned to loop the note to the required length, but in the studio, he discovered he was able to hold the note long enough that no looping was required.[1] The sequence was later included on "Weird Al" Yankovic: The Ultimate Video Collection, although, for legal reasons, all names and titles had to be taken out, excluding that of the film and of Yankovic himself.
Parodies
- Home Alone
- True Lies
- Pulp Fiction
- Jurassic Park
- Speed
- Rambo: First Blood Part II
- Sister Act
- Never Say Never Again
- Cliffhanger
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Ghost
- Apollo 13
- Mission: Impossible
- In the Line of Fire
Cameos
The movie also contains many cameos, including Mr. T as a helicopter pilot in the opening scene and also Pat Morita as a waiter, Hulk Hogan, and Ray Charles as a bus driver amongst others. Thuy Trang also did a cameo as one of the Hawaiian girl-dressed waitresses at a bar who pampers the main character, Dick Steele, and gives him a manicure. Michael Berryman can been seen in the bus crash scene as the man with the oxygen mask. Fabio Lanzoni is seen in the start of the movie walking past Dick Steele and Victoria Dahl spying on General Rancor and his men.
See also
References
External links
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- Spy Hard at the Internet Movie Database
- Spy Hard at Allmovie
- Spy Hard at Rotten Tomatoes
- Spy Hard at Box Office Mojo
- Spy Hard at Metacritic
- Parental Review of Spy Hard
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