Brassy political satire, shot in unavailingly muted color by William Fraker. A cocktail waitress foils an assassination attempt on a Middle Eastern emir, who then wants to add her to his circle of wives. The State Department, anxious to negotiate a military installation in the emir's homeland, sets the wheels in motion by promoting the new national heroine (covergirl on People Magazine and so on) to a job in the diplomatic corps. She proves to be uniquely unsuited to this position, because of her propensity for saying whatever comes to her mind. And what comes to her mind tends to sound like a hack comedy writer's idea of a laugh-track cue. (The hack comedy writer, by name, is Buck Henry.) Things only get funny when they get serious: Goldie Hawn in silhouetted meditation at the Jefferson Memorial or quoting the United States Constitution to a congressional committee. Directed by Herbert Ross. (1984) — Duncan Shepherd
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