The Experts
“Two abducted Americans are going to tell the Russians everything they know. Poor Russia.”
Travis and Wendell are two down-on-their-luck New Yorkers who think they're relocating to a small town in Nebraska to open a nightclub. What they don't know is they've actually been abducted by a KGB operative and flown to the Soviet Union, where they'll unwittingly serve as "experts" on all things cool in America. The town, created expressly for KGB spies-in-training, is meant to serve as a training ground for Soviet agents. What can these two hapless Americans possibly teach the Soviet spies, and will they ever learn they are not actually in Nebraska?
Genres
Action, Comedy
Studio
Paramount Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How The Experts performed
Budget
$13.0M
Worldwide Gross
$169,203
Gross Profit
−$12.8M
Return
0.0× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$23K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~35/65, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (38% of the domestic run, typical for Action) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Travis
John Travolta
Travis
Wendell
Arye Gross
Wendell
Bonnie
Kelly Preston
Bonnie
Jill
Deborah Foreman
Jill
Yuri
James Keach
Yuri
Illyich
Jan Rubeš
Illyich
Mr. Jones
Brian Doyle-Murray
Mr. Jones
Mr. Smith
Charles Martin Smith
Mr. Smith
Mrs. Smith
Mimi Maynard
Mrs. Smith
Aunt Thelma
Eve Brent
Aunt Thelma
Sparks
Rick Ducommun
Sparks
Gil
Steve Levitt
Gil
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