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Nick and Nora Charles are updated to a touchy-feely couple of the 1990s who take a break from the action to raise their eleven-month-old child. Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid star as Jane and Jeff B... read more read more...lue, two CIA super-agents who have abandoned the daily grind to devote quality time to their baby but find trouble on vacation in New Orleans. First a group of muggers try to take advantage of Jeff as he walks down the street with his baby in tow. Jeff teaches the boys a humiliating lesson, but one of the creepy bad guys, Muerte (Stanley Tucci), vows revenge, and he spends the rest of the movie dogging Jeff and Jane and getting kicked in the teeth in the process. But Muerte is small potatoes compared to Novacek (Fiona Shaw), a former Czech agent. Convinced to return to work by their superiors, Jeff and Jane have to catch Novacek red-handed buying illegal explosives from a New Orleans traitor so that the government can send her back to the Czech republic. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi

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17 critics

PG-13, 1 hr. 29 min.

Directed by: Herbert Ross

Release Date: September 10, 1993

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DVD Release Date: April 1, 2003

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  • December 15, 2009
    A cute Movie. A family who Kick A
    and a lot of LOLs
  • March 29, 2007
    Dennis Quaid and Kathleen Turner are fun and fine as a perfect superspy couple who are called back from their retirement and child-rearing to save the world from a master villainess.
  • September 11, 2010
    A campy Mr. & Mrs. Smith meets Original Pink Panther for the 90?s. Retired spies Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid are married on maternity leave in New Orleans and are trying to settle into normal life with a new born baby. This is fluff, pure comedy and if you go in not taking i... read moret serious delivers nothing but fun (and it?s a Instant watch) The most memorable is the sort-of break-out role of Stanley Tucci at Muerte/Morty. As the cold blooded Killer who is tracking them. They thwart him effortlessly at every turn and make him rethink his occupation. Herbert Ross directed this movie as he did another favorite The Secret of My Succe$s. Although His movies vary all over the map, they always develop the main characters where no matter how different the situation you can empathize with them. The first movie I saw that he directed was Seven percent solution A mold breaking Sherlock Holmes picture in the 1970?s
  • June 14, 2008
    Come on! You'd mess with a guy pretentious enough to call himself El Muerte wouldn't you?
  • September 30, 2007
    We just watched this again. It's campy but damn it's fun. Quaid and Turner are charming but it's Tucci steals the show as Morty.
  • May 1, 2007
    Muerte is pretty much the only reason I watch this movie. It's writing isn't that great, and the unrealistic....ness is annoying. But it is fun, and I'm glad we have it.
  • January 9, 2007
    Funny enjoyable movie. As if being a wife, mother, and a woman in general isn't enough then she has to fight some bad guys
  • November 7, 2006
    One of my favorite addictions. I don't care what other's say, I LOVE this movie. I know, it's not an oscar worthy film. But's it's cute and it's funny.
  • November 3, 2006
    If you're a fan of Scarecrow and Mrs. King you've got to watch this. The first time I saw this I said, "The only way this could be better is if Kate and Bruce were the leads!" Really, watch it!

Critic Reviews


Vincent Canby
May 20, 2003
Vincent Canby, New York Times

The movie has enough style to make you overlook reason and the occasionally erratic continuity. Full Review

Jane Horwitz
January 1, 2000
Jane Horwitz, Washington Post

The script by Ian Abrams brims with overwritten cleverness. Full Review

James Berardinelli
January 1, 2000
James Berardinelli, ReelViews

This empty-headed comedy revels in its own admitted idiocy. Full Review

Robert Roten
March 23, 2003
Robert Roten, Laramie Movie Scope

Undercover Blues is one of the best comedies I have seen in a long time. Full Review

Clint Morris
September 17, 2002
Clint Morris, Moviehole

Didn't make a dime, but made me laugh!

Hollis Chacona
January 1, 2000
Hollis Chacona, Austin Chronicle

Chock-full of hilarious performances. Full Review

Shane Burridge
January 1, 2000
Shane Burridge, rec.arts.movies.reviews

It is the free and easy manner projected by Quaid and Turner that provides this film with its heart

Steve Rhodes
January 1, 2000
Steve Rhodes, Internet Reviews

Buy some tickets and give them to your worst enemies. Full Review

Chris Hicks
January 1, 2000
Chris Hicks, Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Some of this is funny, but too much tends to fall flat. Full Review

September 10, 1993
Entertainment Weekly

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