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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Violence, Nudity, Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Profanity Movie Release: 1992 DVD Release: 01/11/2005 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Edition: Dual Layered Audio Tracks: English, French, Spanish Subtitles: English, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 2 hrs 12 mins Studio: 20th Century Fox Members Wishing: 15 Genres: Spy Film, Action, Drama, Romance, Romantic Drama, War Spy Film

Kewpie-doll voiced Melanie Griffith does a sexed-up Nancy Drew turn in David Seltzer's adaptation of Susan Issacs' novel Shining Through. Set during World war II, Griffith plays Linda Voss, a spunky New York girl who applies for a job with international lawyer Ed Leland (Michael Douglas). Ed hires her immediately when he finds out that she speaks German fluently. The reason Ed is so interested in Linda's language skills is because Ed is an undercover OSS officer who needs a German translator. Their business relationship translates into love, but when America enters the war, Ed abandons his law practice to become a full-time spy. Utilizing Linda's charms, she travels to Berlin and infiltrates the Nazis as a domestic to try to discover information about "a bomb that can fly by itself." But Linda has personal as well as patriotic motives for agreeing to go undercover, since she has Jewish relatives in Berlin and wants to find out their whereabouts. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

Michael Douglas - Ed Leland
Melanie Griffith - Linda Voss
Liam Neeson - Franze-Otto Dietrich
Joely Richardson - Margrete Von Eberstien
John Gielgud - Sunflower