You can't help but think this movie started with a conversation about the CIA that began, "What kind of morons tried to discredit Castro by making his beard fall out?" The movie's whimsical conceit is that the moron behind this and a number of other bone-headed schemes was one Allen Quimp (Douglas McGrath), a dithering high-school grammar teacher with a materialistic wife named Daisy (Sigourney Weaver). Quimp is the wimpy underachiever in a family of Nobel Prize winners and astronauts; in order to impress his father-in-law, he claims to be a CIA agent. After accidentally helping world-famous Russian ballet star Rudolf Petrov (Ryan Phillippe) defect, Quimp actually is...
Released:
2001
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
81 mins