Product Details

• Actors: John Travolta, Arye Gross, Kelly Preston, Deborah Foreman, James Keach
• Directors: Dave Thomas
• Writers: Eric Alter, Nick Thiel, Steven Greene
• Producers: James Keach, Diana Greenwood, Jack Grossberg, Jonathan D. Krane
• Format: NTSC
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Paramount
• VHS Release Date: November 11, 1997
• Run Time: 94 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005Y8N9
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #156,022 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

John Travolta and Arye Gross star as two hip but down-on-their-luck New Yorkers who think they're relocating to a small in Nebraska to open a nightclub. What they don't know is that they've been abducted by a KGB operative (Charles Martin Smith) 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, includes seductive agent Kelly Preston, who gets into a real undercover situation with Travolta. Eventually, the two Yanks realize they've been duped and devise a spectacular escape.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Really wonderful!, July 15, 2006

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Shane Williams (Cruising the world on a Carnival Ship) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Experts, The [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I love this movie and have been waiting for years for it to come out on DVD. I'm not like some other posers who are armchair critics (or wish they were) and wanna-be directors who cut down movies for one stupid reason or another. I analyze a movie on how it makes me feel, and how it makes me laugh. This one does deserve 5 stars and I think it's one of Travolta's better roles, at least from the 80's. I liked it as much as Two of a kind. My favorite part was the Russian pilot that just couldn't get American slang correct. Cracks me up every time I see it.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cold War Ends in a Farce, December 2, 2003

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unraveler "unraveler" (Nevada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Experts, The [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I grew up during the Cold War -- in the Soviet Union and immigrated to the U.S. in the 1980s, so this movie for me has a whole different context. I like the premise: take two unsuspecting Americans to Russia and tell them they are in Nebraska. Quite a dig at Nebraska, wouldn't you say? And the 80's hair styles, are they not totally ridiculous?

This movie has wit and humor, although it may not be quite the laugh out loud movie that one may first expect. Still I highly recommend it. Preston is very sexy, especially with her dance moves. And the Russians are portrayed as cute and simplistically noble in this film. The Cold War is over, but the movie is still entertaining.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Funny and a must see movie, April 12, 2000

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J. Whiston "jhwhiston" (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Experts, The [VHS] (VHS Tape)

When I was going to see this movie I first put it on and said this is funny but it is going to end up dumb. But it actually ended up being a pretty good movie. And I thought that was a newer movie like from the 80s and I was write but it is not to predictible well at least not as much as some movies are. i say if you need some fun or cherring up this is your movie.