The Man with One Red Shoe Movie Review
The Man with One Red Shoe Review
Good
Rating: PG
1985
Cast & Crew
Director : Stan Dragoti
Producer : Victor Drai
Screenwriter : Francis Veber, Yves Robert, Robert Klane
Starring Tom Hanks, Dabney Coleman, Carrie Fisher, Lori Singer, Charles Durning, Jim Belushi
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Richard, a hapless orchestra violinist played by A-lister-in-waiting Tom Hanks,
unwittingly and unknowingly becomes a focus of governmental intrigue in this
clever remake. When a deputy director at the CIA falsely identifies Richard as
a man with helpful information, a rival faction at the Agency tries to
infiltrate his life. While a bumbling duo of agents work surveillance, a sexy
blond spy (Lori Singer) attempts to seduce Richard to get inside his head, but
instead gets her hair stuck in his zipper. Meanwhile, an intelligence team led
by Dabney Coleman deconstructs Richard’s mundane life in a desperate attempt to
decipher what he knows.
Red Shoe is a remake of the French film Le Grand Blond Avec une Chaussure Noire
(“The Blond Man with One Black Shoe”), which was a commentary on the operations
of the Secret Service in a country that values its privacy. The American
version is more an adult slapstick than the satire on Cold War excesses it
occasionally portends to be, but it still works as a comedy with an unusually
twisty plot.
Director Stan Dragoti had some success in the Reagan years with quirky,
mainstream comedies, including the smash hit Mr. Mom. In Red Shoe he
demonstrates an adept touch at story-weaving and squeezing hearty amusement –
if not big laughs – from preposterous situations.
