- For the video game, see True Lies (video game). True Lies is a 1994 video game based upon the film of the same name with Arnold Schwarzenegger 's character Harry as the protagonist
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| Directed by | James Cameron |
| Produced by | James Cameron Stephanie Austin |
| Written by | Claude Zidi Simon Michaël Didier Kaminka James Cameron |
| Starring | Arnold Schwarzenegger Jamie Lee Curtis Tom Arnold Bill Paxton Art Malik Tia Carrere Eliza Dushku |
| Music by | Brad Fiedel |
| Cinematography | Russell Carpenter |
| Editing by | Mark Goldblatt Richard A. Harris |
| Distributed by | - USA/France - 20th Century Fox Lightstorm Entertainment - Non-USA/France - Universal Studios |
| Release date(s) | July 15, 1994 (USA) August 12, 1994 (UK) |
| Running time | 144 min. James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is an Academy Award -winning Canadian - American director James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is an Academy Award -winning Canadian - American director Claude Zidi (born July 25 1934 in Paris is a French film director and screenwriter who is noted for his mainstream burlesque comedies James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is an Academy Award -winning Canadian - American director Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger ( German ˌaɐnɔlt aloʏs ˈʃvaɐtsənɛɡɐ born July 30 1947 is an Austrian American Bodybuilder, Actor Jamie Lee Curtis (born November 22 1958 is a two-time Golden Globe -winning BAFTA -winning and Emmy -nominated American Film Thomas Duane "Tom" Arnold (born March 6, 1959) is an American Actor and Comedian. William "Bill" Paxton (born May 17, 1955) is an American Actor and Film director. Art Malik (born November 13, 1952) is a Pakistani-born British actor Tia Carrere (born January 2 1967) is an American actress, model, and Singer, perhaps most widely known for her role Eliza Patricia Dushku (born December 30 1980 is an American Actress, who has appeared in several Hollywood movies such as True Lies, Brad Ira Fiedel (born March 10, 1951 in New York City) is an American Movie music composer. Russell Paul Carpenter, ASC (born December 9, 1950 in Van Nuys, California, U Mark Goldblatt is an Academy Award nominated American Film editor, and director. Richard A Harris is a multi-award-winning Film editor with a career spanning nearly forty years James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is an Academy Award -winning Canadian - American director Universal Studios (sometimes called Universal Pictures or Universal City Studios) a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is a major Global American Events 1099 - First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) Events 1099 - First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon - Crusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon defeat Fatimid Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English Arabic French German |
| Budget | $110,000,000 (estimated) |
| Gross revenue | $378,882,411 (worldwide) |
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True Lies is a 1994 action-comedy film. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. The year 1994 in film involved some significant events Top grossing films (U Action movies are a Film genre where action sequences such as fights, Shootouts Stunts Car chases or explosions either take precedence Comedy film is a genre of Film in which the main emphasis is on humor. It was directed by James Cameron, and stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, Bill Paxton, Tia Carrere, Charlton Heston, and Art Malik. James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is an Academy Award -winning Canadian - American director Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger ( German ˌaɐnɔlt aloʏs ˈʃvaɐtsənɛɡɐ born July 30 1947 is an Austrian American Bodybuilder, Actor Jamie Lee Curtis (born November 22 1958 is a two-time Golden Globe -winning BAFTA -winning and Emmy -nominated American Film Thomas Duane "Tom" Arnold (born March 6, 1959) is an American Actor and Comedian. William "Bill" Paxton (born May 17, 1955) is an American Actor and Film director. Tia Carrere (born January 2 1967) is an American actress, model, and Singer, perhaps most widely known for her role Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter; October 4 1923 &ndash April 5 2008) was an American Actor of Art Malik (born November 13, 1952) is a Pakistani-born British actor Eliza Dushku makes an early career appearance in this film. Eliza Patricia Dushku (born December 30 1980 is an American Actress, who has appeared in several Hollywood movies such as True Lies, True Lies is an extended remake of the 1991 French film La Totale, directed by Claude Zidi and starring Thierry Lhermitte and Miou-Miou. A " remake' " is a term used to described something that has been done again sometimes with better Quality, and usually with more features The year 1991 in film involved some significant events Events April 28 - Bonnie Claude Zidi (born July 25 1934 in Paris is a French film director and screenwriter who is noted for his mainstream burlesque comedies Thierry Lhermitte (born November 24, 1952) is a French actor known for his comedic roles Miou-Miou (born Sylvette Héry, 22 February 1950 in Paris, France) is a French actress. Also, this was the first movie ever to premiere with the computer-generated/animated 20th Century Fox logo bumper, where the "camera" moves down and around the logo while "searchlights" flash into the "lens" as the extended CinemaScope fanfare plays in the background. CinemaScope was a Widescreen movie format used from 1953 to 1967 Speed, a previous Fox film, featured the new logo in its theatrical release, however the old was still used at its premiere. Speed is a 1994 American action / thriller Romance film directed by Jan de Bont set in Los Angeles.
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Plot summary
The movie begins in James Bond style as secret agent Harry Tasker (Schwarzenegger) infiltrates the alpine chateau of an international arms smuggler in Switzerland. James Bond 007 is a Fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve Novels and two Short story Harry's mission is to track down nuclear warheads stolen from Kazakhstan. A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from Nuclear reactions either fission or a combination of fission and fusion. Kazakhstan, also Kazakstan ( Қазақстан, Qazaqstan, qɑzɑqˈstɑn Казахстан, Kazakhstán,) officially the He is aided by his fellow Omega Sector agents, Albert "Gib" Gibson (Arnold) and Faisil (Grant Heslov) who communicates with him from a computerized van. Inside the chateau, Harry meets Juno Skinner (Carrere), an antiquities dealer, and the two dance the tango while Harry arranges an explosive escape. Tango is a Musical genre and its associated dance forms that originated in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Montevideo, Uruguay and
In a twist for an action hero, Harry has an ordinary home life. His wife, Helen (Curtis), is unaware that her husband is a spy and believes he is a computer salesman. Helen thinks Harry is boring, and their daughter Dana (Dushku), doesn't respect her father.
Working undercover, Harry and Gib contact Juno Skinner at her Washington D.C. office. Being undercover is disguising one's own identity or using an assumed identity for the purposes of gaining the trust of an individual or organization to learn secret information Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D It turns out Juno is using antiquities to smuggle the warheads into the United States on behalf of a Palestinian terrorist faction named Crimson Jihad. Palestinian political violence or Palestinian terrorism refers to acts of violence committed for political reasons by Palestinians Palestinian groups that support The faction's leader, Aziz (Malik), follows Harry and Gib when he believes they are asking too many questions.
An extended action sequence begins as Harry allows the faction members to tail him into a shopping mall. A shopping mall or shopping centre is a building or set of buildings that contain Retail units with interconnecting Walkways enabling visitors He leads them into a restroom, which is destroyed in the subsequent melee. Aziz flees the battle on a stolen motorcycle, followed by Harry on a police horse. Mounted police are Police who patrol on Horseback They continue to serve in remote areas and in metropolitan areas where their day-to-day function may be picturesque The chase leads into a hotel, where Aziz rides the motorcycle into an elevator. The pursuit continues on the hotel roof, and Aziz escapes by jumping into a swimming pool on the roof of a neighboring building.
Because of this action, Harry is late getting home and misses his own birthday party. To make amends, he visits Helen at her office the next day. There, he overhears Helen talking with a co-worker about her affair with Simon (Paxton). For other uses see Love Affair or Scandal An affair may refer to a form of nonmonogamy, to Infidelity or to Adultery. The subplot that follows (for the next third of the film) involves Harry's use of his agency's surveillance methods to learn more about Helen's liaison with Simon. At first, Harry believes Simon is an enemy agent, but soon discovers that Simon is a used car salesman who pretends to be a spy in order to seduce women. He's actually so cowardly, he'll wet himself. Harry and his team follow Helen to Simon's house, which they raid using SWAT tactics. SWAT ( Special Weapons And Tactics) is an elite special operations tactical unit in American Police departments similar to the Taiwan Thunder Squad Helen is taken prisoner and interrogated (through a one-way mirror and an electronic voice distorter) by Harry and Gib. Under interrogation, Helen admits that she never slept with Simon, but that she craves adventure that she believes her husband can never provide.
Harry gives Helen an assignment he thinks will appeal to her need for excitement. He enlists her in a mock spy operation which leads her to a hotel suite where she performs a striptease for Harry, who hides his face in shadow. A striptease or Exotic dance is a form of erotic entertainment usually a Dance, in which the performer known as a "stripper" gradually undresses Just as Helen discovers Harry through his disguise, the terrorists return. Harry and Helen are taken prisoner.
At the terrorists' hideout, Aziz reveals that his faction has four of the stolen warheads and intends to detonate them. One is armed and set to blow up their hideout on an uninhabited island. Harry and Helen manage to escape just as the terrorists flee the hideout with the other warheads, but Helen then sees Harry disappear in a huge explosion and believes him to have been killed. Helen is then recaptured by Juno Skinner and driven away in her limousine behind the main convoy.
Harry is found relatively unscathed by Gib (who tracked him through a tracking device planted on Helen), and from a helicopter they coordinate an attack by US Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier jets, on the terrorist convoy which is driving up the Overseas Highway in the Florida Keys. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout The Overseas Highway is a long road carrying US Route 1 through the Florida Keys. The Florida Keys are an Archipelago of about 1700 islands in the southeast United States. Two of the stolen warheads are destroyed, while the bomb back at the hideout is allowed to explode relatively harmlessly. Also Helen manages to break free of Juno and is pulled by Harry into the helicoptor as Juno's limo drives into the water in a place where the bridge is blown out, killing Juno.
In the finale, Harry goes to the rescue of his daughter, who was kidnapped (offscreen) by the terrorists. Faisil manages to infiltrate the terrorists hideout and kills three of them while Dana gets her hands on the arming key for the nukes and makes a run for it. This leads to a climactic battle with Aziz's men at the top of a skyscraper, with Harry piloting Harrier through the city of Miami. A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable Building. There is no official definition or a precise cutoff height above which a building may clearly be classified as a skyscraper Harry kills Aziz by launching an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile (with Aziz attached) into a chopper of the last remaining terrorists. The AIM-9 Sidewinder is a heat-seeking, short-range Air-to-air missile carried by Fighter aircraft and recently certain gunship helicopters History Since 400 AD Chinese children have played with bamboo flying toys.
The movie concludes "One Year Later. . . " with the Taskers back at home, though Helen and Dana are now aware of Harry's secret profession. Indeed, Helen has become Harry's partner, as they go off on a mission together. The film ends as the couple dance Por una Cabeza, a tango. " Por una cabeza " meaning "by a head a [[horse]]" in Spanish, is a popular tango song composed in 1935 by Carlos Gardel and Alfredo The final scene is of Gib in the van saying he's "sick of being in the van. "
Critical reception
Upon its release in 1994, the film garnered mostly positive reviews. The year 1994 in film involved some significant events Top grossing films (U
James Berardinelli from Reelviews gave the film 3. James Berardinelli (born September 1967 is an Online Film critic. 5 stars out of 4, saying "I have yet to decide whether True Lies is a better comedy or action film. It contains heavy elements of both, and plays them equally well. Unlike such failed attempts as Hudson Hawk and Last Action Hero, however, True Lies is a big, grandiose movie that has an immense amount of fun while never taking itself too seriously. Hudson Hawk is a 1991 Film, directed by Michael Lehmann. Bruce Willis stars in the title role and also co-wrote the story Last Action Hero is a 1993 action comedy Film directed by John McTiernan. . . Speed (which was released in the same year) and True Lies deliver a summer one-two punch that will leave viewers squirming with excitement and gasping for breath. Speed is a 1994 American action / thriller Romance film directed by Jan de Bont set in Los Angeles. "
The movie relies heavily on stunts, often performed by Schwarzenegger and Curtis themselves. It is largely remembered for action set pieces such as a Marine AV-8B Harrier blowing up the Seven Mile Bridge, and Helen being scooped up by helicopter out of a falling car. In Film production, a setpiece is a scene or sequence of scenes the execution of which requires serious logistical planning and considerable expenditure of money WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout The Seven Mile Bridge, in the Florida Keys, runs over a channel between the Gulf of Mexico and the Florida Strait connecting Knight's Key (part of the city of
The movie earned $146 million and $232. 6 million abroad, making it third best-grossing movie of 1994, and also a comeback for Schwarzenegger following the disastrous Last Action Hero of the previous summer. Last Action Hero is a 1993 action comedy Film directed by John McTiernan. For her performance, Jamie Lee Curtis received a 1994 Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Musical/Comedy. 52nd Golden
Sequel
Online news reports in 2002 quoted actress Eliza Dushku as saying there was going to be a sequel reuniting the original cast and writer/director James Cameron. Director James Cameron originally planned on making a sequel sometime in 2002 (according to Moviehole.net) - but put his plans on hold once the 9/11 terrorist attacks occurred in NYC, claiming that "in this day and age, terrorism isn't funny. "
Cast
- Arnold Schwarzenegger as Harry Tasker
- Jamie Lee Curtis as Helen Tasker
- Eliza Dushku as Dana Tasker
- Tom Arnold as Albert "Gib" Gibson
- Grant Heslov as Faisil
- Tia Carrere as Juno Skinner
- Bill Paxton as Simon
- Art Malik as Salim Abu Aziz
- Charlton Heston as Spencer Trilby
References
External links
- True Lies at the Internet Movie Database
- True Lies at Rotten Tomatoes
- La Totale at the Internet Movie Database
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