True Lies (1994)

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True Lies is a 1994 American action-comedy film directed by James Cameron and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, Bill Paxton, Tia Carrere, Charlton Heston, and Art Malik. Eliza Dushku also appears in the film in one of her first major film roles. True Lies is an extended remake of the 1991 French film La Totale!, which was directed by Claude Zidi.

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Plot: Harry Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger) leads a double life, performing covert missions for the United States Government under a counter-terrorism task force called The Omega Sector ("The last line of defense"). Albert "Gib" Gibson (Tom Arnold) and Faisil (Grant Heslov) assist him in these missions. Spencer Trilby, played by an eye-patched Charlton Heston, is their boss. Harry's wife Helen (Jamie Lee Curtis), and his daughter Dana (Eliza Dushku), believe he is a boring computer salesman with Tektel Systems (the cover company for Omega Sector) doing a lot of "corporate" travel. Harry is unable to spend quality time with his family due to his secret identity, causing Helen to believe that he does not appreciate her. Harry's latest mission in Switzerland reveals the existence of an Islamic terrorist organization group known as "The Crimson Jihad," led by Salim Abu Aziz (Art Malik), AKA "The Sand Spider." Harry suspects that an antiques dealer named Juno Skinner (Tia Carrere) has ties to Aziz, and after visiting her, he's chased by Aziz's men through the Georgetown Park shopping mall and a large hotel, meanwhile missing the birthday party that his wife and daughter have arranged for him. When Harry goes to Helen's office the next day to surprise her and take her to lunch, he overhears a conversation with her coworker about "Simon" (Bill Paxton), a man she is seeing. This causes Harry to worry about their marriage. Using the Omega Sector's resources (including a GPS tracker and wireless microphone hidden in her purse), he tracks down Simon, who turns out to be a used car salesman posing as a spy to seduce Helen.

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Helen is kidnapped by Harry's agency friends from Simon's trailer and left in a bare concrete interrogation room with a one way mirror. Harry questions her using a voice distorter about her relationship with "Simon" and about their marriage. She says that she wanted to have adventure in her life for once, since Harry never gave her that. Harry realizes his cover as a boring salesman was too convincing and he needs to spice up Helen's life to make her happy. He gives Helen a choice, either go on a "mission" or be sent to prison. She chooses the "mission" and is told that she will be contacted using the codename "Doris." Gib, using the voice distorter, calls Helen and tells her to pose as a prostitute named Michelle. She is sent to the Hotel Marquis to meet a suspected arms dealer. While there she's to plant a bug on his phone. Harry plays the arms dealer in a room frequently used by Omega Sector. Harry uses a tape recorder to get Helen to dance seductively, stripping down to just a bra and thong. When the action moves on to the bed, Helen lashes out at Harry and hits him with the phone from the bedside table. While running back to plant the bug Harry reveals himself but before he can explain Aziz's men burst into the room, taking both of them hostage. They are taken to Juno Skinner's private jet, given a tranquilizer and flown to the terrorist hideout somewhere in the Florida Keys.

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