In the Soviet Union, groups of potential Soviet spies are trained in a town made up to pass for "Indian Springs", Nebraska. The denizens of the town speak perfect English and go about their days as Americans to train the cadets to fit into American society. One of the trainers in this town, KGB agent Cameron Smith, feels that the training is substandard as the town has failed to develop culturally since its inception and is stuck in the 1950s. In order to rectify the situation, Smith hires New York City club-goers Travis and Wendell to teach modern ways to the outdated town under the auspices of opening a nightclub. The two are drugged en route and wake up in Russia unaware they have left the United States. Travis and Wendell are bemused by the quaint ways of the town and dismayed when they see the location Smith has procured for them, but they set to work remodeling the club, begin to make friends around the town and even start to date a couple of the trainees, Bonnie and Jill. At the urging of Travis and Wendell, Smith brings in a shipment of top-of-the-line accouterments and entertainment to modernize the town. This doesn't sit well with town leader Jones and the town's minister Sparks. After a Fourth of July party in which the young people of the town trespass at a local lake to have a party at Travis and Wendell's urging, the two get lost and stumble upon a military base where everyone is speaking Russian and realize they are actually in the Soviet Union. The two decide to go to Bonnie and Jill for help despite knowing that they are spies, each one asserting that their feelings are real. While Bonnie reveals she has fallen in love with Travis and agrees to help him, Jill promptly turns them in. While in prison the pair meet Yuri, the pilot who flew the cargo plane that delivered the modern conveniences, and who was promptly imprisoned for it. Travis and Wendell are brought before the town, and under pain of death are made to renounce their country and democracy. When the two cannot bring themselves to do it and instead extol American life, they inspire the town residents, including Smith and Bonnie, to revolt and overthrow their leaders. After a shootout and subsequent chase, the expatriates escape and make national headlines when they land in America and defect. Some time later the town's residents are living it up in New York City, but Travis is uneasy, thinking that they may be missing their old lifestyle. Realizing that there probably is a town in America just like the one in Russia, the whole group relocates to the actual Nebraska, and resume their lives as Americans, this time for real.
The Experts was a massive box office bomb; its budget was estimated at $3 million and domestic box office was only $169,203. The film was also panned by the critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film currently has an audience approval rating of 26%. Jack Sommersby from "eFilm Critic" wrote: "No, The Experts isn't likely to inspire world peace or serve as a building block for the cure for diabetes, but it goes down well enough and never makes the mistake of having Travis or Wendell "mature" for the sole sake of doing so, and that's what makes them such a consistently-winning pair of heroes you can happily get behind."
