Despite the 'high tech' fixings (which we'd now see as 'low tech') you'd basically file this under 'crime caper with oddball characters', something Robert Redford would already have known about from The Hot Rock.
Is this the most unlikely thing you'd expect to find Sidney Poitier in? Is Poitier a French name?
The misfits are Redford, Poitier, Dan Aykroyd, River Phoenix and David Strathairn, with Mary McDonnell an honorary member. Bad guys are Timothy Busfield and Eddie Jones, and that guy from Ghandi. And Stephen Tobolowsky. And James Earl Jones.
Good fun overall, perhaps bitty - 'written by Phil Alden Robinson and Lawrence Lasker & Walter Parkes'. Ending is straight out of The Trouble with Harry.
Nicely photographed by John Lindley and with a good score from James Horner.
Didn't get 'Who framed Pete Rose' at all.
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