True Lies

UPC: 086162162688

Studio: Fox Home Entertainment

Summary: 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. ~ Michael Betzold, Rovi

Category: Action

Awards: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical – null Best Visual Effects – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Supporting Actress – Screen Actors Guild Best Visual Effects – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Visual Effects – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Visual Effects – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical – Hollywood Foreign Press Association

True Lies

Format: DVD

Release Date: 05/25/1999

Runtime: 141 Minutes

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. ~ Jason Clark, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Mali Finn  Actor 
Tom Isbell  Actor 
Paul Barselou  Actor 
Chuck Tamburro  Actor 
Charles Cragin  Actor 
Jane Morris  Actor 
James Allen  Actor 
Karina Lombard  Actor 
John Bruno  Actor 
James Cameron  Director 
James Cameron  Producer 
James Cameron  Screenwriter 
Stephanie Austin  Producer 
Brad Fiedel  Composer (Music Score) 
Lawrence Kasanoff  Executive Producer 
Rae Sanchini  Executive Producer 
Robert Shriver  Executive Producer 
Arnold Schwarzenegger  Actor 
Jamie Lee Curtis  Actor 
Tom Arnold  Actor 
Bill Paxton  Actor 
Tia Carrere  Actor 
Art Malik  Actor 
Eliza Dushku  Actor 
Grant Heslov  Actor 
Charlton Heston  Actor 

Country: USA