June 3, 2014For an 80s movie starring Tom Hanks and a pretty impressive supporting cast including Lori Singer, Edward Herrmann, Tom Noonan, Gerrit Graham, James Belushi, Carrie Fisher, Dabney Coleman, and few others, The Man With One Red Shoe was kind of a letdown. It revolved around a handful of corrupt members of the CIA - the director and his assistant, and the deputy director and his minions. The deputy director wanted to be the director, so he planned to frame the real director for some drug related criminal activity. The director knew about the deputy director's intentions, and he knew that his house had been bugged and that he was constantly under surveillance, so he picked a random guy (Tom Hanks, who happened to be wearing one red shoe) at an airport to be a decoy that the deputy director would think was involved in something. Hanks was a fairly decent guy aside from the fact that he was sleeping with his best friend's wife. It was slow and meandering in places, and I wouldn't really recommend it. Tom Hanks has been in much better movies.
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