Rating: PG
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 11/16/2004
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD1/DD5.1
Run Time: 116 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Paramount
As he did in his screenplay for
Silver Streak (1974), writer/director
Colin Higgins mixes life-and-death
melodrama with broad
slapstick in
Foul Play.
Goldie Hawn stars as
Gloria Mundy, a recent divorcée whose attempts to start life anew in San Francisco are bollixed up when she is inadvertently swept up in an assassination plot against the Pope. Offering sometimes dubious aid and comfort to
Gloria is bumbling federal agent
Tony Carlson (
Chevy Chase). The film's
comedy ranges from the farcical seduction efforts by musician
Stanley Tibbets (
Dudley Moore) to the zany, gag-filled car-chase finale.
Foul Play features character actors
Rachel Roberts and
Eugene Roche as villains,
Burgess Meredith as a martial arts-happy landlord, and
Billy Barty as a long-suffering religious bookseller. It also packs in a memorable "throwaway" gag involving a profane Scrabble game played by sweet little old ladies
Queenie Smith and
Hope Summers.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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