Thinking he is participating in the “real-life theater” experience his brother has purchased him for his birthday, Wallace Ritchie (Bill Murray) mistakenly lands in the middle of an international spy plot.

The unsuspecting Ritchie sets off, blissfully unaware, into a world of shadowy cat-and-mouse dealings involving assassination, espionage and intrigue — believing that the thrills and kilss all around him are really only staged.