True Lies details
Movie Details:
- Director: James Cameron
- Produced By: 20th Century Fox
- Year: 1994
- Run Time: 141 minutes
- Country: USA
- Language: English
- MPAA Rating: R (for a lot of action/violence and some language)
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Spy Film, Action
- Filmed In: Color
- Key Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, Bill Paxton, Tia Carrere, Art Malik, Eliza Dushku, Grant Heslov, Full Credits
- Awards: Best Supporting Actress (Screen Actors Guild 1994), Best Visual Effects (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie 1994), Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or C (Hollywood Foreign Press Association 1993), Full Awards
Borrowing liberally from the French film La Totale, this is an action picture, domestic comedy, and political thriller rolled into a crowd-pleasing ball of entertainment. Producer James Cameron wrote and directed the film. Henry Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a workaholic computer salesman neglecting his mousy wife Helen (Jamie Lee Curtis), a legal secretary. Simon (Bill Paxton) seduces Helen with the lie that he is a secret agent; he's really a used car salesman. Harry suspects that Helen is cheating on him, and he sends a few colleagues to kidnap them. Helen then discovers that Harry is a secret agent by night, working for a shadowy group called the Omega Sector. Harry and his partner Gib (Tom Arnold) are trying to find four nuclear warheads that have disappeared from a former Soviet republic. by Michael Betzold, All Movie Guide
Keywords:
- con/scam
- deception
- espionage
- love
- terrorism
Themes:
- Crumbling Marriages
- Terrorism
- Double Life
