In this rather routine adaptation of the French hit,
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, Richard (
Tom Hanks) is a bicycling violinist who is innocently drawn into a nasty struggle for control of the CIA. Cooper (
Dabney Coleman) is the unscrupulous current head honcho of the notorious U.S. agency, Ross (
Charles Durning) is his nemesis, and Maddy (
Lori Singer) works for Cooper. After Richard the violinist is forced into the picture, Maddy fights off an attraction to the rather dull man, and complications introduce enough gadgetry to fill a James Bond movie, almost. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide