Summaries

An 18-year-old college student travels to Paris with a friend on vacation. There, he meets Sasha, a young Eastern European woman who seduces him into following her to East Germany, where he slowly discovers the truth about her occupation.

Jonathan Moore and his buddies are into spy games. They play hunter and hunted on the UCLA campus with paint ball guns. His roommate Manolo is popular with the girls, but Jonathan can't raise any interest from young coeds. A school break allows the housemates to fly to Europe where Jonathan hopes to get lucky. It happens pretty quickly at a street cafe in Paris. Sasha, a young grad student from Czechoslovakia, watches Jonathan struggle with a French waiter. She takes pity on him and asks to share his table. Soon, the two are back in his hotel room. Sasha says she loves virgin 18-year-olds. About the time that Jonathan and Manolo plan to head for Spain, Sasha asks Jonathan to accompany her on a business matter in Berlin. Once there, he discovers that she is a courier with a package to pick up in East Berlin. They enter the D.D.R. as a tourist couple. The authorities are rather unfriendly. Sasha excuses herself for a moment to visit a photo booth. The attendant passes a roll of film to her. Vlad, a Russian agent watching all this transpire, grows suspicious of her. Her superiors instruct her to slip the film into Jonathan's bag without his knowledge and direct him to leave East Berlin promptly. His room at the hotel has been ransacked. His traveler's checks are gone. He makes it back to West Berlin just before Vlad can catch him. Disguised as a member of a skinhead band, he manages to make it from Berlin to where he can fly home. His troubles are not yet over. Vlad has followed him to LA. The CIA is after the film, too. Now, however, they are on Jonathan's home turf where his Gotcha game savvy is available.—Garon Smith

Jonathan plays a game called Gotcha in which he hunts and is hunted by other students with paint guns. After a big win, he goes off for a vacation in France where he meets the sexy Sasha who says she is only interested in him because he is a virgin. She takes him with her to East Germany where they are separated and he has to escape back to the west on his own, all the while being trailed by East German spies. He arrives home only to find the game is still going on, and a canister of film is in his backpack. Then Sasha re-appears.—John Vogel <[email protected]>

Details

Keywords
  • forced to strip
  • college campus
  • tag the game
  • reference to james bond
  • exclamation point in title
Genres
  • Action
  • Comedy
  • Mystery
  • Romance
Release date May 2, 1985
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) PG-13
Countries of origin United States
Language English German Russian French
Filming locations Zitadelle, Spandau, Berlin, Germany
Production companies Universal Pictures

Box office

Gross US & Canada $10806919
Opening weekend US & Canada $2360484
Gross worldwide $10806919

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 41m
Color Color
Sound mix Dolby Stereo
Aspect ratio 1.85 : 1

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