History Film / UndercoverBlues

* BabyBoomers: Jane uses one of these to eventually vanquish the bad guys who have her and Jeff surrounded. The real baby is safe and sound at a friend's house.

* BabyBoom: Jane uses one of these to eventually vanquish the bad guys who have her and Jeff surrounded. The real baby is safe and sound at a friend's house.

* BabyBoomer: Jane uses one of these to eventually vanquish the bad guys who have her and Jeff surrounded. The real baby is safe and sound at a friend's house.

The film centers around Jane (Turner) and Jefferson (Quaid) Blue, a husband-and-wife team of spies who are taking some maternity leave time to vacation in UsefulNotes/NewOrleans with their 11-month-old daughter. While enjoying the tourist attractions of TheBigEasy, they are stalked by Muerte (Creator/StanleyTucci), a petty thief and mugger with delusions of grandeur (and competency), tailed by a bumbling pair of New Orleans Police Department detectives who only want to help, but are way out of their depth... and they stumble upon a devious plot involving an insane female arms smuggler (Fiona Shaw) and a large quantity of high-tech explosives.

The film centers around Jane (Turner) and Jefferson (Quaid) Blue, a husband-and-wife team of spies who are taking some maternity leave time to vacation in UsefulNotes/NewOrleans with their 8-month-old daughter. While enjoying the tourist attractions of TheBigEasy, they are stalked by Muerte (Creator/StanleyTucci), a petty thief and mugger with delusions of grandeur (and competency), tailed by a bumbling pair of New Orleans Police Department detectives who only want to help, but are way out of their depth... and they stumble upon a devious plot involving an insane female arms smuggler (Fiona Shaw) and a large quantity of high-tech explosives.

* HelloAgainOfficer: The reason the cops become obsessed with the Blues is because pretty much from the moment they arrived to New Orleans they become embroiled on a bunch of situations that attract police attention (starting with pummeled muggers and escalating to stopping a bank robbery, a fight on a restaurant (that was full of enemy agents), finding a corpse on a cemetery and more).

* InterrogationByVandalism: Jeff forces the BigBad to surrender by threatening to set the C-12 on fire. Then again, the C-12 has been established to be an ''incredibly'' powerful explosive and Jeff's threat threatening is pretty much a TakingYouWithMe.

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The film centers around Jane and Jefferson Blue, a husband-and-wife team of spies who are taking some maternity leave time to vacation in UsefulNotes/NewOrleans with their 8-month-old daughter. While enjoying the tourist attractions of TheBigEasy, they are stalked by a petty thief and mugger with delusions of grandeur (and competency), tailed by a bumbling pair of New Orleans Police Department detectives who only want to help, but are way out of their depth... and they stumble upon a devious plot involving an insane female arms smuggler and a large quantity of high-tech explosives.

The film centers around Jane and Jefferson Blue, a husband-and-wife team of spies who are taking some maternity leave time to vacation in NewOrleans with their 8-month-old daughter. While enjoying the tourist attractions of TheBigEasy, they are stalked by a petty thief and mugger with delusions of grandeur (and competency), tailed by a bumbling pair of New Orleans Police Department detectives who only want to help, but are way out of their depth... and they stumble upon a devious plot involving an insane female arms smuggler and a large quantity of high-tech explosives.

* ImprobableWeaponUser: Jeff Blue beats up several muggers...using a baby stroller as his only weapon...and carrying his infant daughter in his other hand.
** Later, he stops a bank robbery in progress by booby-trapping their getaway minivan with the chain from the fence around the parkway.

* HairTriggerTemper: Muerte's answer to everything that annoys him is to pull out a switchblade and try to stab it. Unfortunately for him, "everything that annoys him" during the movie are the Blues, so all he gets in response is a CurbStompBattle HumiliationConga.

* BadassAndBaby: The afore mentioned knife fight

* TeethFlying: Used as a RunningGag.

** XanatosSpeedchess: Of course, it helps to know how to change your plans very quickly.

The fairly thin premise is saved by some hilarious dialogue, amusing and likeable characters, and some surprisingly good action sequences.

* BadAssAndBaby: The afore mentioned knife fight

''Undercover Blues'' is a 1993 comedy directed by Herbert Ross, starring Kathleen Turner and Creator/DennisQuaid.

* ChekhovsGun: Halfway through the movie, Jeff buys a doll. Also, the way he foils the bank robbers ([[spoiler:"Nobody looks at the driver"]]) comes up again in the end. Not to mention the offer of babysitting.
** Does it count that you probably forget their goal ([[spoiler:get the villain to leave voluntarily]]) and focus instead on whether they'll be able to grab that container of explosives?

''Undercover Blues'' is a 1993 comedy directed by Herbert Ross, starring Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid.

'''''Undercover Blues''''' is a 1993 {{film}} starring Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid as Jane and Jefferson Blue, a husband-and-wife team of spies who are taking some Maternity Leave time to vacation in New Orleans with their 8-month-old daughter. While enjoying the tourist attractions of TheBigEasy, they are stalked by a petty thief and mugger with delusions of grandeur (and competency), tailed by a bumbling pair of New Orleans Police Department detectives who only want to help, but are way out of their depth... and they stumble upon a devious plot involving an insane female arms smuggler and a large quantity of high-tech explosives.

* ReadingYourRights: Played with a bit in the following exchange:
-->'''Jeff Blue''': FBI! You're under arrest. You have the right to remain silent. If you give up that right you may talk, sing, dance, impersonate Elvis or anything else you like. You have the right to an attorney. If you're broke and can't afford one, tough shit! Now get in the car, you suspected felon, you!\\
'''Mr. Ferderber''': Wait, wait. What am I being charged with?\\
'''Jeff Blue''': That's for me to know and you to find out.

* SpyCouple: With kid!

* MyNameIsNotDurwood: "Not Morty! '''MUERTE'''!"
** And then subverted near the end of the film when Jeff and Muerte have been captured by Paulina's men; Jeff calls him "Muerte" and acts as if he's really TheManBehindTheMan, at which point Muerte insists, "My name is Morty!"

** And then subverted near the end of the film when Jeff and Muerte have been captured; Jeff calls him "Muerte" and acts as if he's really TheManBehindTheMan, at which point Muerte insists, "My name is Morty!"

** XanatosSpeedchess: Of course, it helps to know how to change your plans very quickly.

* XanatosGambit: Jeff's motus operandi. Planning for every outcome is how a spy stays alive.