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Wallace receives information about the character he should play via a phone call; unknown to him, the calls get mixed up, and he instead receives instructions intended for a real hitman. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
Wallace proceeds to [[Large Ham|ham his way]] through the underworld of secret agents and espionage. He almost immediately decides to break from "the script" and help the person he was ordered to kill: Lori ([[Joanne Whalley]]), a [[Hooker
It should be noted that, beyond the <s>similar titles</s> title which is obviously a [[Shout-Out|reference]] (and [[Mistaken for Spies|superficial plot similarities]]), this film has nothing to do with Hitchcock's thriller ''[[The Man Who Knew Too Much]]''.
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** At the end where Wallace is being recruited to be an assassin, he believes they are hiring him to be an actor and offers to do the work for free for children and old people.
* [[Born Lucky]]: Wallace
* [[The Butcher]]: Boris Blavasky. In this case, it has a dual meaning- "Butcher" because his work as a spy/hitman is so brutal and messy, but also because "butcher" is ''[[Exactly What It Says
{{quote| '''Sergei''': Why so gloomy? Is better than being butcher.<br />
'''Boris''': I ''like'' being butcher. You know exactly who you are killing... and ''why''. }}
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* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Alfred Molina (Doctor Octopus) as Boris the Butcher
** Peter Gallagher (Buddy Kane from ''[[American Beauty]]'') as the brother-in-law
* [[Hoist
* [[Hooker
* [[I Always Wanted to Say That|I Always Wanted To Do That]]: Knocking over traffic cones during a car chase.
* [[Inspector Oblivious]]
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