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Code Name: Funny
July 2019 Regina (Audrey Hepburn): Of course, you won't be able to lie on your back for a while but then you can lie from any position, can't you? --Charade (1963) Spying is serious business, right? Yet when Hollywood places the profession in exotic locations, over-the-top action set pieces and mixes in beautiful, often dangerous foes/friends, the genre becomes ripe fodder for spoofing. Within the comedy, however, you sense the underlying feeling that the films are also paying tribute to a much-loved cinematic style.
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After Hours Film Society at the Tivoli Theatre, Downers Grove
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Long ShotFred Flarsky (Seth Rogen) is a free-spirited journalist with an affinity for trouble. Charlotte Field (Charlize Theron) is one of the most influential women in the world. The two have nothing in common, except that she was his babysitter and childhood crush. When Fred unexpectedly reconnects with Charlotte, he charms her with his self-deprecating humor and his memories of her youthful idealism. When Charlotte decides to make a run for the presidency, she impulsively hires Fred as her speechwriter. Rated R.
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Based on a true story, the film centers on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater (Taraji P. Henson), an outspoken civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis (Sam Rockwell), a local Ku Klux Klan leader who reluctantly co-chaired a community summit, battling over the desegregation of schools in Durham, North Carolina during the racially-charged summer of 1971. The incredible events that unfolded would change Durham and the lives of Atwater and Ellis forever. Rated PG-13.
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Red /Frank (Bruce Willis) is a former black-ops CIA agent living a quiet life alone, until the day a hit squad shows up to kill him. With his identity compromised, Frank reassembles his old team; Joe, Marvin, and Victoria (Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren), and sets out to prove that they still have a few tricks up their sleeves. Stand back and watch the bullets fly in this explosive action-comedy. Rated PG-13.
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Charade /A trio of crooks relentlessly pursues a young American (Audrey Hepburn) through Paris for the fortune her dead husband stole from them, while also accepting help from a mysterious new friend (Cary Grant). Rated PG.
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FDR (Chris Pine) and Tuck (Tom Hardy) are covert CIA operatives and best buddies, until they both fall for charming and sexy Lauren (Reese Witherspoon). Their friendship is put to the ultimate test as they wage an epic battle for her affection, using their surveillance skills and an array of high-tech gadgetry. May the best spy win! Rated PG-13.
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Tall blond man with one black shoe /When an unsuspecting violinist (Pierre Richard), the tall blond man, is misidentified by the head of a spy network to his assistant (Bernard Blier) as the target of their investigation and a super-spy himself, a series of wacky misunderstandings and silly situations ensues. As the assistant and his henchman fall all over each other in their misguided attempts to discover the alleged super-spy's vital secrets, his best friend happens by and only further complicates things. French language. Not rated.
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Spy /Susan Cooper (Melissa McCarthy) is an unassuming, desk-bound CIA analyst, and the unsung hero behind the Agency's most dangerous missions. But when her partner (Jude Law) falls off the grid and another top agent is compromised, she volunteers to go deep undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer, and prevent a global crisis. Rated R.
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All the Queen's MenAn American Army officer (Matt LeBlanc) leads a mismatched team of British Special Services agents that must go in disguise as women and infiltrate a female-run Enigma factory in Berlin and bring back the decoding device that will end the war. Rated PG-13.
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OSS 117:The pride of French intelligence, Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath (code name OSS 117) (Jean Dujardin), has a new mission that takes him to Bossa Nova Brazil of the 1960's. Teaming up with a sexy Mossad agent (Berenice Bejo), he has to capture a Nazi blackmailer with a embarrassingly long list of World War II French collaborators. French language. Not rated.
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Glass Bottom BoatWhen colleagues think she's an espionage agent, a Girl Friday (Doris Day) at a top-secret aeronautics think-tank chaotically sets out to clear her name. Not rated.
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