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Directed by | James Cameron |
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Screenplay by | James Cameron |
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La Totale! by Claude Zidi Simon Michaël Didier Kaminka |
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Music by | Brad Fiedel |
Cinematography | Russell Carpenter |
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141 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $100–120 million |
Box office | $378.8 million |
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Film score by Brad Fiedel and various artists | |
Released | July 19, 1994 |
Length | 70:35 |
Label | Lightstorm/Epic Soundtrax |
True Lies is a 1994 American action comedy film written and directed by James Cameron, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, Art Malik, Tia Carrere, Bill Paxton, Eliza Dushku, Grant Heslov and Charlton Heston. It is a loose remake of the 1991 French comedy film La Totale!. The film follows U.S. government agent Harry Tasker, who balances his life as a spy with his familial duties.
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.
For 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. The film ultimately grossed $378 million worldwide at the box-office and was also nominated at the Academy Awards and BAFTAs in the Best Visual Effect category, and also for seven Saturn Awards.