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Spy Hard
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Spy Hard is a 1996 American spy comedy action film produced by Hollywood Pictures and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Netflix, and Disney+. Directed by Rick Friedberg and written by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, the movie features Leslie Nielsen, Nicollette Sheridan, Andy Griffith, and Charles Durning in the cast. Nielsen also served as an executive producer, while Bill Conti composed the score and John R. Leonetti handled cinematography. The film was released in the United States on May 24, 1996, and later on July 25, 1996.
Running for 81 minutes, the film has a budget of 18,000,000 and generated 26,960,191 in revenue. It carries a PG-13 rating and is described with the tagline "All the action. All the women. Half the intelligence." Critical reception included an 8% review score, a 3.6/10 rating, and a 25/100 assessment. Other metrics list a 7% rating, a 5.3 IMDb score from 42,408 votes, and a 5.425 vote average. The plot involves an apathetic and doubtful protagonist facing an atomic bomb threat in a James Bond spoof.
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5.4The evil Gen. Rancor has his sights set on world domination, and only one man can stop him: Dick Steele, also known as Agent WD-40. Rancor needs to obtain a computer circuit for the missile that he is planning to fire, so Steele teams up with Veronique Ukrinsky, a KGB agent whose father designed the chip. Together they try to locate the evil mastermind's headquarters, where Veronique's father and several other hostages are being held.
Cast
- Leslie Nielsen as Dick Steele
- Nicollette Sheridan as Veronique Ukrinsky
- Charles Durning as The Director
- Marcia Gay Harden as Miss Cheevus
- Barry Bostwick as Norman Coleman
- Andy Griffith as General Rancor
Themes
- atomic bomb
- spoof
- james bond spoof
- apathetic
- doubtful
- dubious
- frustrated
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Ratings
IMDb
5.3/10
42,408 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
7%
Metacritic
25/100
- Year
- 1996
- Runtime
- 81 min
- Genres
- Action, Comedy
- Rated
- PG-13
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- action film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Cast member
- Kevin Michael Richardson
- Composer
- Bill Conti
- Production company
- Hollywood Pictures
- Cinematographer
- John R. Leonetti
- Duration
- 81
- FilmAffinity ID
- 496350
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1996-07-25
- title
- Spy Hard
- executive producer
- Leslie Nielsen
- distributed by
- Disney+
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 25/100
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