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''Into the Night'' is a 1985 comedy-thriller directed by Creator/JohnLandis, and starring Creator/MichellePfeiffer and Creator/JeffGoldblum.
Briefly, Ed Okin (Goldblum) is an insomniac aerospace engineer who encounters Diana (Pfeiffer), an Iranian smuggler's girlfriend/mule, in the parking garage of Los Angeles International Airport, inadvertently rescuing her from her fiancé's homicidal crime family and getting drawn into a ''very'' complicated jewel heist plot which unfolds over the following 24 hours and sees the imperiled duo running all over the City of Angels.
As with many other Landis films, character actors and [[TheCameo cameos]] abound: Creator/DanAykroyd plays Ed's friend Herb, Creator/VeraMiles plays villainess Joan Caper, Creator/DavidBowie plays a scuzzy hitman, and '''many''' movie directors have minor and bit parts -- with Landis himself as one of the Iranian villains.
Not to be confused with the 2020 Belgian Netflix series of the same name, which is a sci-fi thriller about a passenger airline desperately trying to avoid the sun.
''Into the Night'' is a 1985 comedy-thriller directed by Creator/JohnLandis, and starring Creator/MichellePfeiffer and Creator/JeffGoldblum.
Briefly, Ed Okin (Goldblum) is an insomniac aerospace engineer who encounters Diana (Pfeiffer), an Iranian smuggler's girlfriend/mule, in the parking garage of Los Angeles International Airport, inadvertently rescuing her from her fiancé's homicidal crime family and getting drawn into a ''very'' complicated jewel heist plot which unfolds over the following 24 hours and sees the imperiled duo running all over the City of Angels.
As with many other Landis films, character actors and [[TheCameo cameos]] abound: Creator/DanAykroyd plays Ed's friend Herb, Creator/VeraMiles plays villainess Joan Caper, Creator/DavidBowie plays a scuzzy hitman, and '''many''' movie directors have minor and bit parts -- with Landis himself as one of the Iranian villains.
Not to be confused with the 2020 Belgian Netflix series of the same name, which is a sci-fi thriller about a passenger airline desperately trying to avoid the sun.
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''Into the Night'' is a 1985
As with many other Landis films, character actors and [[TheCameo cameos]] abound: Creator/DanAykroyd plays Ed's friend Herb, Creator/VeraMiles plays villainess Joan Caper, Creator/DavidBowie plays a scuzzy hitman, and '''many''' well-known movie directors have minor and bit parts
Not to be confused with the 2020 Belgian
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: The "Go see Cal" commercial playing in the background at one point with a man riding a hippo is a real automotive dealership, and a real commercial. Cal Worthington "And his 'dog' spot" (which was always some different strange animal) were ubiquitous in the Los Angeles area at the time. The dealerships still exist, but Cal died in September 2013.
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Not to be confused with the 2020 Belgian Netflix series [[NamesTheSame of the same name]], which is a sci-fi thriller about a passenger airline desperately trying to avoid the sun.
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Not to be confused with the 2020 Belgian Netflix series [[NamesTheSame of the same name]], name, which is a sci-fi thriller about a passenger airline desperately trying to avoid the sun.
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* ActionSurvivor: Ed. He begins the film a poor schnook who gets dragged into a criminal conspiracy he's way unprepared for. By the end of the film, he's encountered three different flavors of organized crime, the Iranian secret police, CIA and FBI agents, and even Elvis impersonators, and is no longer fazed by anything.
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* ActionSurvivor: Ed. He begins the film a poor schnook who gets dragged into a criminal conspiracy he's way unprepared for. By the end of the film, he's encountered three different flavors of organized crime, the Iranian secret police, CIA and FBI agents, and even Elvis impersonators, and is no longer fazed by anything.anything -- probably helped by the fact he's already TooBrokenToBreak due to his insomnia.
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* TokenRomance: Averted, even though the poster calls it "a dangerous romance." There is no romantic tension or subplot between Ed and Diana at all (outside of Ed obviously being impressed when he briefly glimpses Diana nude, and Diana's reaction to Ed after [[spoiler:he falls asleep in the hotel room]]), leaving it up to the viewer to decide if any relationship happens after the story ends. (Creator/JeffGoldblum devotes some time to speculating on this in a retrospective featurette on the Blu-Ray release; the uncut interview is available on the ''Shout! Takes'' podcast.)
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* TokenRomance: Averted, even though the poster calls it "a "A dangerous romance." There is no romantic tension or subplot between Ed and Diana at all (outside of Ed obviously being impressed when he briefly glimpses Diana nude, and Diana's reaction to Ed after [[spoiler:he falls asleep in the hotel room]]), leaving it up to the viewer to decide if any relationship happens after the story ends. (Creator/JeffGoldblum devotes some time to speculating on this in a retrospective featurette on the Blu-Ray release; the uncut interview is available on the ''Shout! Takes'' podcast.))
* TooBrokenToBreak: Played with. Poor Ed Okin has been suffering from chronic insomnia, apparently for years. During the course of his two-night adventure, he encounters threats, violence and murder, including an assassin sticking the barrel of a Walther PPK in his mouth while interrogating him and, later, the need to try and talk down a surrounded former Iranian secret police agent who has taken Diana hostage. For the most part Ed barely reacts with anything more than mild bemusement or disbelief (although a jump scare with a barking dog briefly panics him). His condition has left him mostly detached from the reality of the dangers around him.
* TooBrokenToBreak: Played with. Poor Ed Okin has been suffering from chronic insomnia, apparently for years. During the course of his two-night adventure, he encounters threats, violence and murder, including an assassin sticking the barrel of a Walther PPK in his mouth while interrogating him and, later, the need to try and talk down a surrounded former Iranian secret police agent who has taken Diana hostage. For the most part Ed barely reacts with anything more than mild bemusement or disbelief (although a jump scare with a barking dog briefly panics him). His condition has left him mostly detached from the reality of the dangers around him.
