Muddled story with stolen art, American Nazis, and an entire host of things included.
Despite a stellar cast, the film suffers from constant confusion. Why was that art dealer killed? Would we actually think that an elderly Holocaust survivor was trying to fool people with the Veneer portrait? Do we have to be told that villain Philip Casnoff is thrown off the helicopter he flees to? Since when does a blonde dish have the name of Agnes? What an art investigator she is!
Lea Thompson directed and starred in this mess as a housewife who goes on student field trips and also doubles as a secret agent. The mixing of the two is hard to believe as well as realize here. Thompson always has that bit of anger on her face when she is acting. I can't blame her here given the material that she has to work with.
Joe Penny, as the cop Frank, is taken in by Agnes, Elaine Hendrix, and he looks entirely confused by all this.
Nice seeing William R. Moses in the part of Thompson's husband. Remember him in Perry Mason? I always wondered what became of him. He is given so little to do in this film.
Despite a stellar cast, the film suffers from constant confusion. Why was that art dealer killed? Would we actually think that an elderly Holocaust survivor was trying to fool people with the Veneer portrait? Do we have to be told that villain Philip Casnoff is thrown off the helicopter he flees to? Since when does a blonde dish have the name of Agnes? What an art investigator she is!
Lea Thompson directed and starred in this mess as a housewife who goes on student field trips and also doubles as a secret agent. The mixing of the two is hard to believe as well as realize here. Thompson always has that bit of anger on her face when she is acting. I can't blame her here given the material that she has to work with.
Joe Penny, as the cop Frank, is taken in by Agnes, Elaine Hendrix, and he looks entirely confused by all this.
Nice seeing William R. Moses in the part of Thompson's husband. Remember him in Perry Mason? I always wondered what became of him. He is given so little to do in this film.