Waste of time

i must have seen a different film!!

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

In a desperate attempt to keep his job as the director of the CIA "Ross" (Charles Durning) directs his assistant "Brown" (Edward Herrmann) to select a person at random and falsely suggest to his main rival "Cooper" (Dabney Coleman) that this innocent bystander has secret information that might thwart Cooper's political ambitions. To that end, Brown selects an eccentric musician named "Richard" (Tom Hanks) because he is wearing one red shoe due to a practical joke played on him by his best friend "Morris" (James Belushi). As expected, Cooper takes the bait and immediately puts all of his resources into finding out what Richard knows. However, what Cooper doesn't realize is the difficulty his agents encounter when they submerge themselves into Richard's bizarre life. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this movie started off a bit slow but got pretty funny towards the end with Morris deservedly having to endure his share of comedic mishaps. Admittedly, this wasn't a great comedy by any means but I still found it entertaining enough and I have rated it accordingly. Slightly above average.

There is a rivalry between Burton Cooper (Dabney Coleman) and his boss CIA director Ross (Charles Durning). Maddy (Lori Singer) is one of Cooper's agents. Cooper is able to doublecross Ross by getting a CIA agent arrested for cocaine smuggling in Morocco. The Senate calls on Ross to testify and he has 48 hours. Ross intends to misdirect Cooper by sending him on a wild goose chase. Ross' second Brown (Edward Herrmann) picks random guy at the airport, Richard Drew (Tom Hanks), the man with one red shoe. Richard is a violinist having an affair with his best friend Morris (Jim Belushi)'s wife Paula (Carrie Fisher). Cooper swallows the bait whole as his team struggles to discover what evidence Richard has against him.Tom Hanks is playing an everyman. If this movie works at all, it is due to his charms. At times, it tries to be a screwball comedy but it never gets to be outright funny. It's nice ... like Hanks. He's never unleashed and neither is the movie.

If you're looking for a comedy that's going to have you rolling on the floor with laughter? Well, "The Man With One Red Shoe" isn't it. It's a mediocre film. It builds up a little bit of steam as it moves along, and it has a few humorous scenes, but there was little in it that struck me as truly "funny." It's notable as a very early example of Tom Hanks movie career. To this point he had starred in "Splash" (which I enjoyed) and in "Bachelor Party" (which I haven't seen.) Hanks is fine in this. He plays his part fairly straight - which is the only way this would have worked.The basic story is about mistaken identity. There are two factions vying for control of the CIA. One, led by Ross (Charles Durning) deliberately turns Drew (Hanks) into an object of suspicion to be pursued by the other faction led by Cooper (Dabney Coleman). Drew has no connection with either side or with the CIA. He's a violinist and not a spy, but so desperate is the Cooper faction to believe that he's a spy, that everything they find in his every day life is filtered through that lens, making him more and more suspicious to him. I suppose there's a bit of a warning there. If someone wants to be suspicious of you, no matter how innocent you are, they'll find reasons.Drew ends up in a variety of mildly amusing situations as this unfolds, and pretty good use is made of the actors with whom he interacts most regularly - Maddy (Lori Singer), who works for Cooper and is trying to trap him, but ends up falling for him; Morris (James Belushi), his best friend who sees so many strange things happening around Drew that he starts to think he's going crazy; and Paula (Carrie Fisher), Morris' wife who desperately wants to have an affair with Drew. It's the scenes with Fisher and Belushi that are responsible for most of the humour, and some of the scenes with Singer are amusing, and Singer is quite beautiful, especially in the "backless" (and somewhat more) dress scene.Overall, though, this is a mediocre film of no great note, except that it is early Hanks in the days before he was a huge star. (4/10)

Then this movie is right up your alley! It is a wonderfully kooky movie about how an 'Average Joe' who is mistaken for a spy and gets mixed up in a world of spies. I laughed from beginning to end. It is one big mix up after another and it just keeps getting funnier and funnier as the movie goes along.Tom Hanks is a wonderful physical comic actor. He trips, falls, bangs into stuff. Meats the woman of his dreams.Why is he only wearing one red shoe when is he picked out of a crowd of people? You have to watch the movie!Like I said though you really must have an odd sense of humor to truly enjoy it. It is not one of those movies meant for dissection, it is meant to be mindlessly enjoyed.