True Lies Movie

True Lies
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Run Time: 141 min
MPAA Rating: R
Released: 1994
Directors: James Cameron
Genre/Type: Spy Film
Action
Action Thriller
Action Comedy
Glamorized Spy Film
Producers: James Cameron
Stephanie Austin
Plot Synopsis by Michael Betzold
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.

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Cast

Actors Character Born
Arnold Schwarzenegger Harry Tasker Jul 30, 1947 in Graz, Austria
Jamie Lee Curtis Helen Tasker Nov 22, 1958 in Los Angeles, CA
Tom Arnold Albert 'Gib' Gibson Mar 6, 1959 in Ottumwa, IA
Bill Paxton Simon May 17, 1955 in Fort Worth, TX
Tia Carrere Juno Skinner
Art Malik Salim Abu Aziz
Eliza Dushku Dana Tasker Dec 30, 1980 in Boston, MA
Grant Heslov Faisil
Charlton Heston Spencer Trilby Oct 4, 1923 in Evanston, IL
Paul Barselou Old Guy in Bathroom May 31, 1922 in Cohoes, NY
Karina Lombard Jan 21, 1969 in Tahiti
Charles Cragin Samir
James Allen
John Bruno Custodian
Mali Finn
Jane Morris Janice
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Review by Jason Clark
A cheeky update of action hero films, notably the James Bond series, James Cameron's inventive, exciting opus has an instantly dated feel, but is so jammed with tricks up its sleeve it's hard to resist. His next filmed effort following mega-hit Terminator 2: Judgment Day, director Cameron packs his emblematic visual punch into every major set-piece, including a hair-raising finale involving a high rise building and a Harrier Jump Jet. The movie gleefully abandons close scrutiny almost to the point of sheer foolishness, but one could guess this was the point of the 007 films as well. The film made even more money than Cameron's previous efforts, but was greeted with jeers by both women's groups and people of Middle Eastern descent for its unflattering portrayals of both. The former is evident in a clumsy striptease performed by co-star Jamie Lee Curtis that many deemed sexist and unnecessary, the latter chiding the director for his representation of Arabs as villainous and lecherous.

True Lies on TV

Zip Code: 10010 · Provider: Verizon Fios Freehold NY Plus-Digital (Jersey City) Edit
Dec 6 , 9:00 AM ET · True Lies  · Channel 129 · BIO · Duration: 181 min.
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