The Man Who Knew Too Little

He’s on a mission so secret, even he doesn’t know about it.

An American gets a ticket for an audience participation game in London, then gets involved in a case of mistaken identity. As an international plot unravels around him, he thinks it's all part of the act.

1997

Comedy·Crime·Action

1h 34min

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Top Billed Cast

Bill Murray
Wallace Ritchie
Peter Gallagher
James Ritchie
Joanne Whalley
Lori
Alfred Molina
Boris
Richard Wilson
Daggenhurst
John Standing
Embleton
Simon Chandler
Hawkins
Geraldine James
Ludmilla Kropotkin
Anna Chancellor
Barbara Ritchie
Nicholas Woodeson
Sergei
Cliff Parisi
Uri
John Thomson
Dimitri
Janet Henfrey
Ms. Goldstein
Terry O'Neill
Spenser
Isabel Hernandez
Consuela
Donald Pickering
Sir Duncan
Venetia Barrett
Sir Duncan's Wife
Terence Harvey
Herr Schuster
Cate Fowler
Frau Schuster
Richard Dixon
Rupert

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