Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005 film)

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Mr. & Mrs. Smith
film poster
Directed by	Doug Liman
Produced by	Lucas Foster Akiva Goldsman Eric McLeod Arnon Milchan Patrick Wachsberger
Written by	Simon Kinberg
Starring	Brad Pitt Angelina Jolie Vince Vaughn Kerry Washington Adam Brody
Music by	John Powell
Cinematography	Bojan Bazelli
Editing by	Michael Tronick
Studio	Regency Enterprises New Regency Summit Entertainment
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	June 10, 2005
Running time	122 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$110,000,000
Gross revenue	$478,207,520

Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a 2005 romantic action comedy film, directed by Doug Liman and written by Simon Kinberg. The original music score was composed by John Powell. The film stars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as a bored married couple who learn that they are both assassins hired by competing agencies to kill each other. A novelisation of the film was written by Cathy East Dubowski. The German DVD release of Mr. & Mrs. Smith garnered worldwide controversy when code exhibiting the characteristics of a rootkit was found on the disk.^[1]

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Reception and box office performance 3.1 Colombian reception 4 Music 5 Television series 6 Unrated version 6.1 Differences (in order of appearance) 7 Trivia 8 Notes 9 External links

[edit] Plot

The film opens with John and Jane Smith answering questions during marriage counseling. The couple who have been married for "five or six" years, but their sex life is so poor that they cannot remember the last time they had sex. They tell the story of their first meeting in Bogotá, Colombia, where they met while both were secretly on the run from Colombian authorities. They quickly fell in love and were married. John later states that Jane "looked like Christmas morning" to him on the day they met.

In reality, however, John and Jane are both skilled assassins working for different firms, both among the best in their field, but both with very different methods of assassination with Jane working out thorough plans and John taking a less analytical approach. Each are concealing their true profession from their spouse. Under these cover stories, John and Jane balance their apparently mundane marriage—which both of them find after a few years to be growing dull and suffocating—with their secretive work. When both are assigned to kill a man named Benjamin Danz (nicknamed "The Tank"), they encounter each other on the job and botch the hit. Believing each had been sent to stop the other from completing their mission, their employers order one Smith to eliminate the other.

After a few "mild" attempts on each other's lives, fueled by a mutual sense of betrayal, the marital spat culminates in an elaborately choreographed, high-octane fight in the Smith house. After a long, evenly-matched fight, with their house shot to shambles, they wind up with guns in each other's faces. John balks, and lays his gun down; Jane finds she cannot shoot her spouse either, and both succumb to their love instead. Mr. and Mrs. Smith reunite and rediscover each other.

However, the newly-rekindled Smith partnership is quickly threatened by their employers, who have now decided to eliminate the couple. John's best friend and coworker, Eddie, turns down a bounty of $400,000 for each Smith, but John and Jane find themselves under fire from an army of assassins. Fending off an attack which blows up their house, the Smiths "borrow" their neighbor's minivan and successfully destroy three pursuing armored cars of attackers, all while bickering over their fighting styles and newly-discovered personal secrets.

After meeting with Eddie, the Smiths decide to fight together to preserve their marriage. They kidnap Danz from his high-security prison in order to give their employers something they want more than the Smiths. However, Danz reveals that he was merely bait, hired jointly by their employers after it was discovered that the Smiths were married, in the hopes of having one Smith kill the other.

John and Jane forgo their separate contingency plans and make their stand together. In the final fight scene of the film, the Smiths — now working smoothly together as a team — defeat an extended attack by a large number of armed forces during a long shoot-out inside a department store.

The film ends with the couple meeting the marriage counselor, where the happy Smiths state how much their marriage has thrived, realizing how happy they really are.

[edit] Cast

• Brad Pitt as John Smith
• Angelina Jolie as Jane Smith
• Adam Brody as Benjamin "The Tank" Danz
• Vince Vaughn as Eddie
• Kerry Washington as Jasmine
• Keith David as Father
• Angela Bassett as Atlanta
• Chris Weitz as Martin Coleman
• Rachael Huntley as Suzy Coleman
• Michelle Monaghan as Gwen
• Stephanie March as Julie
• Jennifer Morrison as Jade
• Theresa Barrera as Janet
• Perrey Reeves as Jessie
• Melanie Tolbert as Jamie
• William Fichtner as Dr. Wexler (voice)

"One of the best action movies I have ever seen seen ,in the history of acting", said movie actor johnny marcqez.Brad Pit and angelina jolie made their popularity boost up high sky of playing a role in the Mr.and Mrs.smith film.The film made several millions , in fact it made 1.2 billion dollers. counting blu ray and wide HD TV (dvds,blu ray disc,video players ect). The producers (johnny martin ,jose menta) and directers (juan sachez, lucas almeida) were well awarded for having the best action film of the year. The critics were amazed by the script timeline and the focus on the action.

[edit] Reception and box office performance

As of Sunday October 29, 2007, the film has grossed approximately $468,336,279 worldwide.^[2]

On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 58% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 189 reviews, with the consensus that "although this action-romance suffers from weak writing and one too many explosions, the chemistry generated by onscreen couple Pitt and Jolie is palpable enough to make this a thoroughly enjoyable summer action flick."

[edit] Colombian reception

Less than four weeks after its release in Colombia, the General Secretary of the City Hall in Bogotá, Enrique Borda, sent a letter of protest to the director Doug Liman. In the letter he states that:

It is evidenced, beyond any doubt, that the director and his production crew show a total level of ignorance by portraying [Bogotá] as incipient [...], primitive, with scarce hotel infrastructure, dominated by poverty, depressed, disorganized, with high levels of violence; in conclusion, totally chaotic and not attractive at all.

Borda also points out in his text that Bogotá was awarded with the title of "City of Peace" by the Unión de Ciudades Capitales Iberoamericanas (UCCI) and was declared "World Book Capital 2007" by UNESCO.

[edit] Music

Two soundtrack albums were released from the film - a film score composed by John Powell and a soundtrack with songs used in the film. The albums were released at different times to avoid confusion, the former was released on June 28 and the latter on June 7, 2005.

[edit] Television series

In January 2006, ABC announced that a television series was being produced based upon the movie. Writer Simon Kinberg and director Doug Liman were reunited to adapt the movie for television, and Jordana Brewster and Martin Henderson were hired in the roles played by Jolie and Pitt, respectively.^[3] Although a pilot was filmed, ABC did not order the series and it was not on their 2007 fall schedule.

[edit] Unrated version

A two-disc, unrated version of the film was released on DVD on June 6, 2006. On the original DVD version during a commentary with the director, he mentions that he was not able to use as much sex and violence as they had originally filmed to meet the PG-13 rating.

[edit] Differences (in order of appearance)

• In the unrated version, the dance scene is extended with some sexual movements.
• In the rated version, Benjamin Danz receives his next assignment from Father (Jane's superior). This scene has been deleted entirely from the unrated version. Danz is now introduced when John gets the contract from his superiors to take him out.
• Some dialogue has been changed in the poker-hit sequence. In the rated version, John stumbles while grabbing the cash he has in his pocket, which provokes one of the poker players to show his gun to John. John says, "Whoa...that's cool, man." Afterward, he shows his money and says "See?" a few times to everyone at the table. In the unrated version, John says to gunman, "Dude...I'm just showin' you my bankroll, man," then follows with "You know what I'm sayin'?" instead of "see?"
• In the rated version, following the simultaneous "hits" by John and Jane, Jane is shown at home, changing back into her regular clothing behind a screen when John walks in. They exchange lies about what they did when they "went out". The film then cuts to John and Jane putting on phony "happy faces" and greeting their neighbors with joy. In the unrated version, the "lying" scene has been deleted entirely and has been replaced with a shorter scene where Jane and John are heading up their neighbor's walkway to go their party and are arguing about what they were doing when they "went out". Jane complains that John has "been drinking". It then leads into the scene where the door opens and John and Jane pretend to be "happy".
• In the unrated version, another scene with John and Jane, in bed, lying to each other to cover for their covert operations, has been added.
• In the unrated version, there is more of a lead-up to the initial confrontation between John and Jane. John sits in the car and thinks before putting on his wedding band and entering the house.
• In the rated version, after John breaks into Jane's building and Jane escapes, she and John exchange insults. John is shown shouting, "chicken-shit" and Jane responds with, "pussy". In the unrated version, Jane is no longer shown actually saying the word. Instead, we hear her say it off-screen with a full surprised reaction from John.
• In the unrated version, the shootout sequence between John and Jane, in their house, is slightly more extended.
• In the unrated version, the sex scene (after John and Jane's fist-fight) has been extended slightly, which John briefly performs oral sex on Jane.
• In the rated version, Eddie wakes up to see that there's a bulletin for a $400,000 hit on John Smith and another $400,000 hit on Jane Smith. In the unrated version, this scene has been deleted entirely.
• In the unrated version, in the van before the Smiths want to capture Danz and are comparing records, John adds the comment "are you counting innocent bystanders?" removing some of the double-entendre from the previous conversation.
• In the unrated version, the fight in the home improvement store is extended, featuring an ATV with a chaingun mounted in the rear.
• In the rated version, the climactic gun battle/dance scene had a version of Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros' Mondo Bongo underscored by John Powell playing behind it. In the unrated version, the scene no longer has music of any kind playing behind it. Instead, the explosions and bullets and rockets are the only things heard and they're slightly more emphasized.

[edit] Trivia

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• While Adam Brody's character, Benjamin "The Tank" Danz, is being interrogated by John and Jane, he is seen wearing a T-shirt featuring another one of Brad Pitt's films, Fight Club.
• The Rocket launcher shown during the first attempt to assassinate Benjamin "The Tank" Danz, is called a R47 Widowmaker, a fictional weapon and a reference to the plot of the movie.
• The Department store is named Kostmart, the same store logo, name, and layout is used in Fun with Dick and Jane. It is slightly extended in a deleted scene where they rob it.
• Season 8 of Charmed has an episode called Mr. and Mrs. Witch. In it Billie accidentally turns her parents into highly-trained, married assassins, very reminiscent of Jane and John. There is even a scene where they are sent to kill each other but decide on love instead.
• During the scene in the restaurant when Jane is "mourning" the loss of John, she makes a comment stating "is sloth one of those?" Which may be a reference to Brad's movie Se7en.
• During the minivan chase scene, Brad Pitt is humming an Air Supply song.
• A notable parody of Mr. & Mrs. Smith is featured on the Treehouse of Horror XVIII episode of The Simpsons, known as "Mr. & Mrs. Simpson".

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

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• Official website
• Mr. & Mrs. Smith at the Internet Movie Database
• Mr. & Mrs. Smith at the TCM Movie Database
• Mr. & Mrs. Smith at Allmovie
• Mr. & Mrs. Smith at Rotten Tomatoes
• Mr. & Mrs. Smith at Metacritic
• Mr. & Mrs. Smith at Box Office Mojo
• Simon Kinberg's original treatment for the film

Preceded by Madagascar	Box office number-one films of 2005 (USA) June 12	Succeeded by Batman Begins
Preceded by Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith	Box office number-one films of 2005 (UK) June 12, 2005

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