Undercover Blues (1993)

[samvara]

Remains one of my comfort movies, I showed it to vampire movie club in lieu of the planned vampire movie because one of the godlings couldn't make it. Jane (Kathleen Turner) and Jeff (Dennis Quaid) are retired espionage agents turned devoted parents who can't quite manage to make the retiring stick. It's an american action comedy with great pacing, music, and choreography. Both Novacek (Fiona Shaw) and Muerte (Stanley Tucci) make excellent comedic villains (the restaurant scene with the oysters makes me cackle every time). The thing that makes this movie special is the relentlessly wholesome, respectful, passionate relationship between Jane and Jeff that shows how unnecessary unlikable protagonists and toxic masculinity are to great entertainment. Their smiles. My heart.