Into the Night

Under-rated 1985 comedy-thriller directed by John Landis, and starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Jeff Goldblum.

Briefly, Ed Okin is an insomniac aerospace engineer (Goldblum) who encounters an Iranian smuggler's girlfriend/mule Diana (Pfeiffer), at LAX, inadvertently rescuing her from her fiancé's homicidal crime family and getting drawn into a complicated jewel heist plot.


 * Elvis Impersonator: Diana's brother Charlie.
 * Hey, It's That Guy!: if it's possible to be Trope Overdosed on a single trope, it's this film and this trope:
 * Herb (Ed's best friend) is played by Dan Akroyd
 * Ed and Herb's boss is played by David Cronenberg
 * Colin Morris (the psychotic British hitman) is played by David Bowie
 * the doorman of the Beverly Hills Wiltshire is played by Paul Bartel
 * the nameless man who is pushed off a public phone is played by Jim Henson
 * Monsieur Melville (French gangster and employer of Morris) is played by Roger Vadim
 * one of the four SAVAK agents pursuing Ed and Diana is played by the director, John Landis (he's the one who never speaks)
 * My Car Hates Me
 * There Is No Kill Like Overkill: During the climax, most of the bad guys get blown away, but the one played by  seems to get a special sendoff.
 * Victoria's Secret Compartment (though in this case it does refer to the, uh, other compartment).