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'''''Mr. & Mrs. Smith''''' is a 2005 American 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 [[ |
'''''Mr. & Mrs. Smith''''' is a 2005 American 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 [[Angelina Jolie]] and [[Brad Pitt]] as a bored married couple who learn that they are both master assassins when they are sent on the same job. |
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Revision as of 01:22, 5 October 2011
Mr. & Mrs. Smith | |
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File:Mr and mrs smith poster.jpg | |
Directed by | Doug Liman |
Written by | Simon Kinberg |
Produced by | Akiva Goldsman Arnon Milchan Lucas Foster |
Starring | Angelina Jolie Brad Pitt Vince Vaughn Kerry Washington Adam Brody |
Cinematography | Bojan Bazelli |
Edited by | Michael Tronick |
Music by | John Powell |
Production companies | |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox Summit Entertainment |
Release dates | June 7, 2005(Kuwait) June 10, 2005 |
Running time | 120 minutes |
Country | Template:FilmUS |
Language | English |
Budget | $110 million |
Box office | $478,336,279 |
Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a 2005 American 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 Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt as a bored married couple who learn that they are both master assassins when they are sent on the same job.
Plot
The film opens with John (Brad Pitt) and Jane Smith (Angelina Jolie) answering questions during marriage counseling. The couple has been married for "five or six" years, but their marriage is suffering to the point 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; since the authorities were looking for tourists travelling alone after a recent heist, the two claimed to be together to avoid being questioned. 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, John and Jane are both skilled assassins working for different firms, both among the best in their field. Each is 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 prisoner Benjamin "The Tank" Danz (Adam Brody) during a transfer, they encounter each other on the job and the hit ends up being botched. Believing each had been sent to stop the other from completing their mission, they seek to discover and 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 a 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 have sex.
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 (Vince Vaughn), turns down a bounty of $400,000 for each Smith (since he won't get out of bed for anything less than $500,000), but John and Jane find themselves under fire from an army of assassins. Fending off an attack which blows up their house, the Smiths steal their neighbor's minivan and successfully destroy three pursuing armored vans 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. 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 again, where the Smiths state how much their marriage has thrived and how happy they really are, with John motioning a subtle "10" when asked about the "sex question" once more.
Cast
- Angelina Jolie as Jane Smith
- Brad Pitt as John Smith
- Vince Vaughn as Eddie
- Kerry Washington as Jasmine
- Adam Brody as Benjamin "The Tank" Danz
- Keith David as Father
- Angela Bassett (uncredited) as Voice of Mr. Smith's boss
- William Fichtner (uncredited) as Voice of Dr. Waxler – Marriage Counselor
Background
Screenwriter Simon Kinberg came up with the idea for the film after listening to a couple of his friends who were in therapy for their marriage. Kinberg noticed that the way they were describing it sounded "aggressive and mercenary" and he "thought it would make an interesting template for a relationship inside of an action film."[1]
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.
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- Score track listing
- Bogota
- The Bedroom
- Playing House
- Assignments
- His and Her Hits
- Office Work
- Desert Foxes
- John and Jane's Identity
- Dinner
- Hood Jump
- Mutual Thoughts
- John Drops In
- Tango De Los Asesinos
- Two Phone Calls
- Kiss And Make Up
- Minivan Chase
- Shopping Spree
- Dodging Bullets
- The Next Adventure
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- Soundtrack track listing
- "Love Stinks" – The J. Geils Band
- "Nothin' but a Good Time" – Poison
- "Tainted Love" – Soft Cell
- "Baby, Baby" – Alana D
- "Express Yourself" (Mocean Worker Remix) – Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
- "Mondo Bongo" - Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
- "Lay Lady Lay" – Magnet featuring Gemma Hayes
- "I Melt With You" – Nouvelle Vague
- "Nobody Does It Better" – 8mm
- "Let’s Never Stop Falling in Love" – Pink Martini
- "Tango De Los Asesinos (Assassin’s Tango)" – John Powell
- "Used to Love Her (But I Had To Kill Her)" - Voodoo Glow Skulls
- "You Are My Sunshine" – Stine J.
- "You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin" – The Righteous Brothers
- "Making Love Out of Nothing At All" - Air Supply
- "You Give Love a Bad Name" – Atreyu
- "Love Will Keep Us Together" – Captain and Tennille
Release
Box office
The film grossed approximately $478,336,279 worldwide.[2]
Reception
Mr. & Mrs. Smith received mixed reviews from critics. Review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 58% based on 203 reviews, with an average score of 6/10[3]. At the website Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has received a rating average of 55, based on 41 reviews, which it ranks as "mixed or average reviews"[4]. Simon Braund in Empire gave the film a positive review, describing it as "A full-on action flick, subversive rom-com and weapons-grade star vehicle that's drenched in Tinseltown glitz, from a director who knows how to put the money on the screen while his tongue's firmly in his cheek"[5]. Daniel Saney on Digital Spy gave the film four stars out of five, saying "Its ideas are often borrowed, and it’s hardly deep and meaningful, but it’s a fantastically fun film"[6]. Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times praised the chemistry between the lead actors, saying "What makes the movie work is that Pitt and Jolie have fun together on the screen, and they're able to find a rhythm that allows them to be understated and amused even during the most alarming developments"[7]. In a negative review, Mick LaSalle in the San Francisco Chronicle described the film as "awful" and went on to state: "The tiny smidgen of cleverness on display here is contained entirely in the premise. The follow-through is nonexistent"[8].
Home media
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.
Television pilot
In 2007, a pilot for a spin-off television series was made for the ABC network. Set six months after the end of the film, it was written by Simon Kinberg and directed by Doug Liman. Kinberg described the proposed TV series as "Married... with Children with guns."[9] The roles of John and Jane were played by Martin Henderson and Jordana Brewster. On website The Futon Critic, Brian Ford Sullivan criticised the chemistry between Henderson and Brewster and ended his review stating: "While there's always a few gems that get locked away in the networks' vaults each year, this decidedly isn't one of them"[10]. ABC decided not to commission the series.
Remake
Hong Kong studio New Asia Entertainment Group will be producing a remake entitled Assassin Couple.[11] Action-film star Donnie Yen and Pop singer/actress Cecilia Cheung have signed on to star in the leading roles.[12]
References
- ^ Murray, Rebecca, Writer Simon Kinberg Discusses "Mr and Mrs Smith" and "X-Men 3", About.com, 9/6/2005, retrieved 29/4/2010
- ^ "Mr. And Mrs. Smith". The Numbers. Nash Information Services, LLC. October 26, 2009. Retrieved January 10, 2010.
- ^ "Rotten Tomatoes". Retrieved September 15, 2011.
- ^ "Metacritic". Retrieved September 15, 2011.
- ^ Braund, Simon. "Mr And Mrs Smith". Empire. Retrieved September 27, 2011.
- ^ Saney, Daniel (June 13, 2005). "Mr. & Mrs. Smith". Digital Spy. Retrieved September 27, 2011.
- ^ Ebert, Roger (June 9, 2005). "Mr. & Mrs. Smith". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved September 27, 2011.
- ^ LaSalle, Mick (June 10, 2005). "It's nothing personal -- each of them has a job to do. Of course, it is a deadly business". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved September 27, 2011.
- ^ Adalian, Josef (January 1, 2007). "ABC gets with 'Smith'". Variety. Retrieved November 16, 2009.
- ^ Ford Sullivan, Brian (June 12, 2007). "The Futon's First Look: "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" (ABC)". The Futon Critic. Retrieved October 2, 2011.
- ^ http://www.kungfucinema.com/yen-and-cheung-to-become-an-assassin-couple-18321
- ^ http://twitchfilm.com/news/2011/07/donnie-yen-and-cecilia-cheung-to-play-an-assassin-couple-in-mr-mrs-smith-remake.php
External links
- 2005 films
- 2000s action films
- 2000s romantic comedy films
- American action comedy films
- American black comedy films
- American romantic comedy films
- American screwball comedy films
- English-language films
- Films shot in Rome
- Regency Enterprises films
- Summit Entertainment films
- 20th Century Fox films
- Films directed by Doug Liman