Foul Play (1978)
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Reviews Counted: 19
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 5
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Critic Reviews: 4
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 2
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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
Jul 14, 1978 Wide
Nov 16, 2004
Paramount Home Video
Cast
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Goldie Hawn
Gloria Mundy -
Chevy Chase
Tony Carlson -
Burgess Meredith
Hennessey -
Rachel Roberts
Gerda Casswell/Delia Da... -
Eugene Roche
Archbishop Thorncrest -
Dudley Moore
Stanley Tibbets -
Bruce Solomon
Bob Scott -
Marilyn Sokol
Stella -
Brian Dennehy
Fergie -
Chuck McCann
Theater Manager -
Billy Barty
J.J. MacKuen -
Don Calfa
Scarface -
Marc Lawrence I
Stiltskin -
Cooper Huckabee
Sandy -
Ion Teodorescu
Turk -
Pat Ast
Mrs. Venus -
John Hancock
Capt. Coleman -
Queenie Smith
Elsie -
Hope Summers
Ethel -
Irene Tedrow
Mrs. Monk -
Cyril Magnin
Pope Pius XIII -
Chuck Walsh
Newscaster -
Frances Bay
Mrs. Russel -
Joe Bellan
Man in Phone Booth -
David Cole
Extra -
Lou Cutell
House Manager -
William Frankfather
Whitney Jackson -
Garry Goodrow
Henpecked Husband -
Rollin Moriyama
Japanese Man -
Barbara Sammeth
Sally -
Connie Sawyer
Screaming Lady -
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Janet Wood
Sylvia -
M. James Arnett
Truck Driver -
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Jophery C. Brown
Cop -
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All Critics (19) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (5) | DVD (8)
Writer Colin Higgins makes a good directorial bow.
Unsatisfactory as a whole, the film is hilarious and tense in bits.
Top CriticMr. Higgins's penchant for mixing visual elegance with coarse gags is equally ill-advised, especially because it makes him work the gags so hard.
Director Colin Higgins plays foul with the audience, constructing some of the most dishonest suspense sequences ever filmed.
The comedy/thriller plods on for too long with tasteless and witless physical comedy, though it has a few funny moments.
A funny, successful, and very derivative crime-comedy.
The film clumsily and sluggishly mixes humor and suspense and fails at both.
Ocasionalmente divertido, traz Chase tentando se afirmar como galã de ação e Hawn encantadora como em quase todos os seus filmes da época. Porém, é um filme descartável.
Chevy when he was funny, Goldie when she was starting her heyday, and Dudley too. What a deal.
Charming and goofy Hitchcock homage with great performances by Hawn and Chase.
Look out for the elf!
If you haven't seen it, or you just want to relive a bit of goofball 70s comedy history, then it's worth grabbing for a rental.
brainless and silly... not that that's a bad thing
Truly enjoyable thrill comedy in the Hitchcock mode.
This is a finely tuned and fast-paced offering which is chock-full of black comic twists and perfect casting.
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