Actors: River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier,
Richard Jenkins, Caroline Kava, Richard Bradford, Richard Lynch
Rating: 3 out of 10, Another bad 80s
flick about a deep cover Russian family living the American dream in suburban
San Diego. Basically the same premise as The Americans and you can see why it
took so long after this fiasco for Hollywood to return to it. This is one of the
movies that surprises you because the cast is top notch but cannot salvage it. Phoenix
displays the awesome potential that was sadly lost in his passing but there
were massive holes in the plot that cannot be forgiven, even for a bad movie. Poitier
must be embarrassed to have this film on his sterling resume as he plays an
awkward FBI agent befriending the son of the Russian agents while two separate assassins
are tracking them all down. It was all very Russian and very bad.
MVP: River Phoenix as Jeff, makes you
miss him all the more
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