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The Spy Next Door
Director: Brian Levant
Release Date: January 15, 2010
Starring: Jackie Chan, Magnus Scheving, Billy Ray Cyrus, George Lopez, Amber Valletta, Madeline Carroll, Will Shadley
Language: English
Country: United States
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The Spy Next Door is an 2010 martial arts-action-comedy film starring Jackie Chan, Magnus Scheving, Billy Ray Cyrus and George Lopez. Filming started in late October in New Mexico and was finished in late December 2008. The movie is to be released on January 15, 2010. The film is rated PG for sequences of action violence and for some mild rude humor.
Former CIA spy Bob Ho (Chan) takes on his toughest assignment to date: looking after his girlfriend’s three kids, who haven’t exactly warmed to their mom’s beau. And when one of the youngsters accidentally downloads a top-secret formula, Bob’s longtime nemesis, a Russian terrorist, pays a visit to the family. While babysitting his neighbor’s children, a former CIA agent (Jackie Chan) winds up having to fight off secret agents after one of the kids inadvertently downloads a secret code.
A simple Chinese immigrant wages a perilous war against one of the most powerful criminal organizations on the planet in this sprawling action drama directed by Derek Yee (One Night in Mongkok) and starring Jackie Chan, Daniel Wu, and Masaya Kato. In Japan, foreign migrants are shunned by mainstream society. Taunted by the yakuza, they live in constant fear of being discovered and repatriated. Into this perilous world ventures Steelhead (Chan), a humble tractor repairman who has traveled to Tokyo in search of his missing girlfriend, Xiu Xiu (Xu Jinglei), who vanished into thin air shortly after arriving in the city.
It doesn’t take Steelhead long to learn just what kind of hardships Chinese immigrants in Japan endure at the hands of underworld gangsters and foreign crime syndicates, and upon discovering that Xiu Xiu has adapted a Japanese identity and married up-and-coming yakuza chief Eguichi (Masaya Kato), the two men form an uneasy alliance. Over time, Steelhead earns the respect of his fellow Chinese immigrants by establishing a place for them to gather.
But the dark side still beckons to Steelhead, because after helping Eguichi dispense with a powerful rival, he is granted full control of Shinjuku’s most popular nightspots. Resistant to the allure of the criminal lifestyle, Steelhead discovers a new love and opens a tractor repair business just outside the city. When Equichi begins using Steelhead’s former compatriots as pawns to front the yakuza’s drug trade, the vengeful immigrant returns to the city determined to exact justice, even if it means destroying the future of the woman he once loved.
Cast:
- Jackie Chan as Bob Ho
- Magnus Scheving as Poldark
- Billy Ray Cyrus as Colton James
- George Lopez as Glaze
- Lucas Till as Larry
- Amber Valletta as Gillian
- Madeline Carroll as Farren
- Will Shadley as Ian
- Alina Foley as Nora
- Katherine Boecher as Tatiana Creel
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