Spies Like Us

Spies Like Us (1985) is John Landis's Cold War comedy, ready to watch online on iFILM. Two slacker State Department clerks get tapped for a top-secret mission and dropped into the middle of a superpower standoff without being told the one thing that matters.

Emmett and Austin, played by Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd, are convinced they are now elite operatives. They are actually decoys, sent to draw the KGB's attention while the real agents do the quiet work. The pair gets parachuted into Pakistan, marched across the mountains toward Dushanbe, chased by border guards, and tangled up with a cool-headed agent posing as a Red Cross doctor, all while a live Soviet missile waits at the finish line. The comedy lives in how calmly Chase and Aykroyd play total chaos. Keep an eye out for cameos from Terry Gilliam and Bob Hope. It's a goofy, good-natured slice of the eighties for an easy night in. Stream Spies Like Us (1985) online on iFILM.