Penny Marshall directs Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen Collins and Carol Kane in this comedy thriller where a computer whiz who works at a New York bank inadvertently receives a coded message from a British spy.

My sister and I had this taped off the telly as kids so therefore watched it on repeat. Both the comedy and the espionage elements are pretty thin but Whoopi cooks. This is her vehicle and she knows it. There’s a couple of tasty trailer moments (Whoopi pretends to be a Supreme, Whoopi is dragged around the streets of New York in a stolen phone booth) but they rarely make much sense within the greater humdrum plotting. If you don’t have the nostalgia for this that I clearly do then knock off a couple of points.

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