Catherine DeVoto (Deal of the Century)

Catherine DeVoto (Sigourney Weaver) is a gold digger from the 1983 movie Deal of the Century. She will do anything for money and was married to Harold DeVoto (Wallace Shawn) who is desperately trying to close a deal to sell unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) named "Peace Makers" to the American armed forces.
Eddie Muntz (Chevy Chase) is a small-time weapons dealer who has just lost a fortune in a weapons deal gone wrong. Muntz will do anything for money and is always trying to close the next deal.
Muntz returns to his hotel room, somewhere in South American after his briefcase of money was blown up during a helicopter raid on his last weapons deal. In the next room he meets Harold DeVoto who has been waiting forever to close the deal of the century selling the drones to the government. Harold can’t take the pressure of waiting for the one phone call that will make him a rich man. He says that if he doesn’t make the deal his wife will leave him. Harold can’t take it any more and has bought a gun to kill himself.
Eddie Muntz talks Harold out of killing himself as Harold explains his dilemma. He even shows Eddie the contracts ready to be signed. Eddie takes his gun and bullets and goes back to his room only to hear a shot ring out.
Eddie returns to the room to find that Harold has shot himself. Then suddenly the phone starts ringing. Eddie answers it. It’s the government and they want to green-light the drone deal.
Eddie closes the deal.
Eddie meets and flirts with Catherine who then explains that she just lost her husband. Later Catherine comes to Eddie’s room. She pulls a gun on him an accuses him of killing her husband. It turns out that she was married to Harold DeVoto.
She claims that Harold left her and his mother with huge debts. But Eddie sees through her ploy. He realizes that she is just a con-artist trying to get money. He pushes the gun away from his face and she shoots him in the foot.
While Eddie is recovering Catherine joins his team which also includes Ray Kasternak (Gregory Hines). Ray is beginning to question the ethics of what they are doing selling weapons to homicidal dictators. Eddie and Catherine have no such hang ups. They are both willing to do anything to close the deal.
The deal with the US government falls through when the drone does out of control and starts blowing things up. Eddie and Catherine are forced to try and sell the drone back to the South American dictator General Cordosa (William Marquez). Ray warns Eddie and Catherine that General Cordosa is known as a mass murderer but they are not bothered by this revolation and continue to sell him the deadly Peace Maker drones.
Cordosa likes the drones but needs something to close the deal. That something is Catherine.
Eddie is falling for Catherine but realizes that he needs to talk her into sleeping with Cordosa to close the deal. Catherine doesn’t need much persuasion and hardly makes a big deal out of the arrangement. 
Catherine shows up at General Cordosa penthouse room and finds him in the hot tub. She then goes to change into something a little more comfortable and then there is a montage of missiles being launched from their silos. 
Catherine and General Cordosa’s voices can be heard during their tryst over the footage of weapons of massdistruction, when suddenly there is a cut to footage of a helicopter opening up with machine guns as General Cordosa apologises for finishing too soon. Catherine says that she doesn’t mind and that she won’t tell anyone as long as he signs the deal for the drones.
The deal is closed at last and Eddie and Catherine are on track to become very rich when Ray destroys the drone during a weapons show.
Eddie and Catherine survive but end up working selling used cars.
TRIVIA:
* Deal of the Century is a 1983 American comedy film directed by William Friedkin and starring Chevy Chase, Gregory Hines, and Sigourney Weaver.
* The movie predicts the use of Drones as weapons of war.
*The name "Deal of the Century" comes from a bribery scandal involving Lockheed and Japanese officials in 1972.
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