Deal of the Century
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Deal of the Century is a 1983 American comedy film directed by William Friedkin and starring Chevy Chase, Gregory Hines, and Sigourney Weaver.
The film follows the adventures of several arms dealers that compete to sell weapons to a South American dictator.
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Chevy Chase plays Eddie Muntz, an American arms dealer seeking to sell a high-tech military Unmanned aerial vehicle to a South American dictator (portrayed by William Marquez) with the assistance of his partner Ray Kasternak (Gregory Hines). To seal the deal, Muntz asks his girlfriend (Sigourney Weaver) to sleep with the dictator. Muntz's efforts are complicated by Frank Stryker (Vince Edwards) who competes to make the sale himself, and by Ray's religious conversion.