The Man with One Red Shoe (1985)

User Rating:

5.3/10   

Director:

Stan Dragoti

Writers:

Francis Veber (screenplay) and
Yves Robert (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

19 July 1985 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Thriller

Plot:

A man picked randomly out of a crowd is made the target of CIA survelliance and pursuit.

Plot Keywords:

CIA | Shoe | Red Shoes | Surveillance | Farce

Cast

Tom Hanks	...	Richard Harlan Drew
Dabney Coleman	...	Cooper
Lori Singer	...	Maddy
Charles Durning	...	Ross
Carrie Fisher	...	Paula
Edward Herrmann	...	Brown (as Ed Herrmann)
James Belushi	...	Morris (as Jim Belushi)
Irving Metzman	...	Virdon
Tom Noonan	...	Reese
Gerrit Graham	...	Carson
David L. Lander	...	Stemple
Ritch Brinkley	...	Hulse
Frank Hamilton	...	Edgar
Dortha Duckworth	...	Natalie
David Ogden Stiers	...	The Conductor

Runtime:

92 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

UK:15 (re-rating) (uncut) (2004) | UK:PG (original rating) (cut) | Iceland:L | Australia:PG | Finland:K-12 | Sweden:11 | USA:PG | West Germany:12 | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Georgetown, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivia:

The musical love theme and composition that Tom Hanks plays throughout the film on the violin was written by Michael Masser.

Goofs:

Continuity: During the scene with the dead bodies in Richard's apartment, Reese manages to remove all the shelves and food from Richard's refrigerator, hide them somewhere else in the kitchen, stuff Carson's body in the fridge, then remove the body and put all the shelves and food back - all in a matter of seconds.

Quotes:

Brown: Wouldn't it bother you to send an innocent man to his grave?
Ross: Are you serious? We're talking about my career.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Orion's Cloud (2002)

Great Sunday-afternoon viewing

OK, it's not the most brilliant piece of art in the world, but neither is it the turkey that the video guides make it out to be. It's a cute spy-cliché spoof with good performances from Hanks, Durning, Coleman, Belushi, Herrman and particularly Tom Noonan as the deadpan Agent Reese. Super music by Thomas Newman (one of his first scores), an elegant string of sight gags featuring Belushi and a couple of corpses, and a sweet ending scene more than make up for the underlying silliness of the plot and a handful of flatly delivered lines. Good to watch on a Sunday afternoon when you need to occupy your mind, but not TOO much.