Undercover Blues (1993)

A married couple (Kathleen Turner, Dennis Quaid) are on vacation in New Orleans with their baby daughter (Michelle Schuelke). They are, in actuality, retired spies but when a renegade Czech arms dealer (Fiona Shaw) dealing in and transporting dangerously unstable chemical weapons arrives on the scene, their boss (Richard Jenkins) lures them back into the espionage game for one last job. This is a routine comedy action flick with a gimmick. The gimmick is the baby! But the gimmick backfires because (yes, I know it's only a movie!) the baby is constantly put in harms way and what sane parent would endanger their infant so? For example, Quaid battles some thugs with one hand while holding the baby with the other and Turner and Quaid take the baby with them when breaking into the house of a potentially dangerous situation. Quaid comes off as glib when he's supposed to be "cool" though Turner remains appealing. There's also an annoying comic performance by Stanley Tucci as a stereotypical Latino thug that might be slightly less offensive if it were actually played by a real Latino. Shaw gives the one truly funny performance in the film as the cartoon villainess. Directed by Herbert Ross (STEEL MAGNOLIAS). With Obba Babatunde and Larry Miller as a pair of not too bright New Orleans cops, Tom Arnold, Saul Rubinek and Park Overall.