Top Secret!

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Top Secret!

PG

1984

1h 30m

Comedy

Music

Crime

Drama

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Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers (Val Kilmer) travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillary Flammond (Lucy Gutteridge), he finds himself caught up in an underground resistance movement. Rivers joins forces with Agent Cedric (Omar Sharif) and Flammond to attempt the rescue of her father, Dr. Paul (Michael Gough), from the Germans, who have captured the scientist in hopes of coercing him into building a new naval mine.

Critics Consensus

Top Secret! finds the team of Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker sending up everything from spy movies to Elvis musicals with reckless, loony abandon.

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Kathleen Carroll

New York Daily News

04/20/2021

3/4

Although there is no question that this free-swinging spoof... runs out of steam, it is a wonderfully flaky example of what Hollywood has to offer in this traditionally silly summer season.

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Tom Setzer

Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com

04/20/2021

2/4

If you're in the mood for some frequently inspired silliness (and have been weakened by the heat) you'll no doubt find something to laugh at in this movie.

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Kevin Thomas

Los Angeles Times

04/20/2021

The result is a non-stop barrage of gags, many of them inspired and hilarious themselves but scattershot in effect because the premise isn't sturdy or coherent enough to hold them together.

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Richard Freedman

Newark Star-Ledger

Jan 7

"Top Secret!" is short on coherent plot, but long on a kind of Mad Magazine manic merriment.

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Noah Gittell

Washington City Paper

04/10/2025

Kilmer never breaks... it’s a work of near-sorcery, anchoring an actually serious movie that the filmmakers smother with jokes until it becomes a completely different thing.

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

04/02/2025

4/5

…Val Kilmer’s cinematic debut is one for the ages, platforming a personable, handsome leading man who can sing, dance and handle comedy with Peter Cushing to Omar Sharif…Kilmer had talent to spare, and Top Secret! is the place to see it on full display…

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David W

@Sternhammer Apr 11

Whilst not as consistently funny as Airplane (but then nothing is) it's still a great comedy and has many inspired moments. Well worth a watch.

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Amir S.

@Amir_Reviews_Everything Mar 15

A spoof movie that has gone unnoticed for far too long

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Tony W

@Tonyflix Mar 5

Literally just watched this Where has it been all my days?? Kilmer is spot on, support cast delightful, humour extravagantly wonderfully ott. A cow in wellys what's not to love Straight into my all time top 10.

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Alejandro E

@Alex970 Feb 22

An almost classic from the 1980s, from David Zucker's golden years. The idea was to parody World War II spy films. The jokes come thick and fast and work quite well, remaining relevant today. Anyone who doesn't laugh should consult their doctor.

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Roberto N.

@Hover Feb 15

It’s kinda hard to describe how this movie works. Like a lot of absurdist humor, it tracks in the same vein of humor as the movie Airplane!. If you like that movie—- and you like Monty Python comedy? You’ll probably like this movie too... it also reminds me a little of Green Acres. Again, absurdist, fish out of water, square peg round hole humor. There’s a lot of quickie dirty cheap jokes a lot of dad jokes in here, and basically just a fun romp, an amazingly funny spoof, and times that’ll truly have your belly laughing… And other places that get slightly slow. But overall, I think it’s phenomenally good.

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Kyle M

@RT77296778 Feb 2

The quirky signature still enjoyably tickles with weary signs, appealingly bolstered by Val Kilmer’s unlikely sort of breakthrough in a far-fetched role that complicates the farce mixture’s targets and ends on a solidified eye-rolling note. (B)

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Jim Abrahams

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David Zucker

Director

Jerry Zucker

Director

Val Kilmer

Nick Rivers

Lucy Gutteridge

Hillary Flammond

Christopher Villiers

Nigel aka The Torch, Resistance Leader

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Synopsis

Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers (Val Kilmer) travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillary Flammond (Lucy Gutteridge), he finds himself caught up in an underground resistance movement. Rivers joins forces with Agent Cedric (Omar Sharif) and Flammond to attempt the rescue of her father, Dr. Paul (Michael Gough), from the Germans, who have captured the scientist in hopes of coercing him into building a new naval mine.

Director: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
Producer: Hunt Lowry, Jon Davison
Screenwriter: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Production Co: Paramount Pictures
Rating: PG
Genre: Comedy, Music, Crime, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 8, 1984, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 1, 2013
Runtime: 1h 30m
Sound Mix: Dolby, Surround
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)