The Experts

Name: The Experts
Genre: Action, Comedy
Released: 1989-01-13
Duration: 1 h 34 min
Rating: 5.1
Cast: John Travolta, Arye Gross, Kelly Preston, Deborah Foreman, James Keach

Two abducted Americans are going to tell the Russians everything they know. Poor Russia.

The Experts (1989)

Timing: 1:34 (94 min)

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Video for the film The Experts — The Experts (1989) Original Trailer [FHD]

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Production

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Budget

$13 000 000

Box office

$169 203

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Director

Dave Thomas

Actors

John Travolta, Arye Gross, Kelly Preston, Deborah Foreman, James Keach, Jan Rubeš, Brian Doyle-Murray, Charles Martin Smith, Mimi Maynard, Eve Brent
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Scenario

Producer

James Keach, Jack Grossberg, Jonathan D. Krane

Camera operator

Ronnie Taylor

Composer

Marvin Hamlisch

Artist

David Fischer

Audition

Marci Liroff

Editing

Bud Molin
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Short description

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?

What's left behind the scenes

Executives at Paramount Pictures demanded that director Dave Thomas reshoot some scenes before the film's limited release in 1989, but two years had passed, and John Travolta, who played the lead role, had gained almost 15 kilograms, so a reshoot had to be abandoned.