Suspecting Helen is having an affair, he uses Omega Sector resources to learn that Simon is a used car salesman who pretends to be a covert agent to flirt with women. Harry goes to Helen's office the next day to smooth things over and surprise her for lunch, but overhears her making secret arrangements to meet a man named Simon. As a result, he misses the birthday party that his wife and daughter had planned for him. Harry fights them off, but loses Aziz in pursuit. Harry visits her undercover as a potential buyer to learn more, leading Aziz and his men to attempt to kill him.

Eventually they learn that Juno is not only Khaled's art dealer, but that she is being paid by an Islamic terrorism group called 'Crimson Jihad', led by Salim Abu Aziz. Harry, along with fellow Agents Albert 'Gib' Gibson and Faisil, infiltrate a party in Switzerland hosted by billionaire Jamal Khaled, where Harry meets beautiful art dealer Juno Skinner. counterterrorism and intelligence agency named Omega Sector. Harry Tasker leads a double life: to his legal secretary wife Helen and his rebellious daughter Dana, he is a boring computer salesman often away on business trips, while in actuality he is a secret agent for a U.S. It was also nominated at the Academy Awards and BAFTAs in the Best Visual Effects category, and also for seven Saturn Awards. The film ultimately grossed $378 million worldwide at the box-office, becoming the third-highest-grossing film of 1994, behind The Lion King and Forrest Gump. It was also the first film to cost $100 million.įor her performance, Curtis won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and the Saturn Award for Best Actress, while Cameron won the Saturn Award for Best Director.

True Lies was the first Lightstorm Entertainment project to be distributed under Cameron's multimillion-dollar production deal with 20th Century Fox, as well as the first major production for the visual effects company Digital Domain, which was co-founded by Cameron. government agent Harry Tasker (Schwarzenegger), who struggles to balance his double life as a spy with his familial duties. It is based on the 1991 French comedy film La Totale! The film follows U.S. It was executive produced by Lawrence Kasanoff and stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, Art Malik, Tia Carrere, Bill Paxton, Eliza Dushku, Grant Heslov and Charlton Heston. True Lies is a 1994 American action comedy film written and directed by James Cameron.

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