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1. #Movie with kathleen turner and dennis quaid update
2. #Movie with kathleen turner and dennis quaid series

With these two, a sequel would be quite welcomed.Įspecially if the same team could be given a bit more plot to wrestle with. Both are well at home with Ian Abrams' delightfully mischievous dialogue - Quaid flashing his perfect smart-aleck grin and Turner back in peak form with an effortless performance that does justice to the esteemed legacy of screwball comedy.

#Movie with kathleen turner and dennis quaid series

Together they're a domesticated team of secret FBI operatives, enjoying a maternity vacation in New Orleans.īut when a former nemesis named Novacek (Fiona Shaw) swipes some highly volatile plastic explosives, the Blues are pressed into duty to foil the plot, all the while coping with a pair of snooping Big Easy cops (Obba Babatunde and comedian Larry Miller), and a small-time mugger named Muerte (Stanley Tucci) who harbors a major grudge against Jeff after a series of humiliating encounters.Īs in the "Thin Man" series, the plot takes a back seat to the husband-wife banter, so it's a pleasure to find Turner and Quaid so wonderfully matched. In "Undercover Blues," Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid play matrimonial lovebirds Jane and Jeff Blue (another pair of alliterative names), and instead of a smart dog they've got an adorable baby named Jane Louise (Or is it Louise Jane? They can't agree). In the popular and still wonderful "Thin Man" series of the '30's, William Powell and Myrna Loy combined sophisticated wit and detective mystery as married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles - and let's not forget their clever pooch Asta. It's a standard ploy to mine the past and give it a facelift, even to the point of drawing some direct parallels.

#Movie with kathleen turner and dennis quaid update

Somebody got the bright idea to update "The Thin Man" for the '90's, and "Undercover Blues" is the surprisingly entertaining result. "PG-13" - Parental guidance strongly suggested, due to mature humor, mild profanity. Metro, Grand, Everett 9, Parkway Plaza, Totem Lake, Newmark, SeaTac 12, Factoria, Crossroads, Kent 6. Directed by Herbert Ross, from a screenplay by Ian Abrams. # 1/2 Undercover Blues, with Kathleen Turner, Dennis Quaid, Fiona Shaw, Stanley Tucci.