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Issue: Winter, 2013
True Lies (1994) movie review
Do you ever get the feeling that your spouse is lying to you? Well, maybe not lying to you, maybe that your spouse is just too boring to be lying to you?
Harry and Helen Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis) are average Americans. She's a legal secretary who is thinking about having an affair, but not really. And he is a computer software salesman, but not really. Their happy, but dull, home life is about to be blasted away by terrorists, spies, guns, helicopters and really big explosions.
Movie poster,True Lies; Festivale film review
James Cameron's screenplay (based on La Totale! by Claude Zidi, Simon Michael and Didier Kaminka) is a fast-paced romp, full of action and adventure in the best way. There is humour and human emotions balanced with some extremely adventurous special effects that involve not just the Taskers, his best friend (Tom Arnold), but their teenage daughter (Eliza Dushku).
Happy ever after for this family isn't going to be average, it isn't going to be dull, it isn't going to revolve around conversations about the plumber, and getting there is the best bit.
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by Ali Kayn |
Just the facts:Title: True Lies (1994) (1994) The Players: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, Bill Paxton, Tia Carrere, Eliza Dushku, Charlton Heston Official website: IMDb entry For session times of current films, use the cinema listings on the Movie links page. For scheduled release dates, see the coming attractions section. For more information about this movie, check out the internet movie database. |
Published in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 
Filed: 19-Aug-2013