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Release Date:
14 August 1998 (USA)
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Tagline:
Mrs. Peel, we're needed. more
Plot:
Two British agents (John Steed and Emma Peel) team up to stop Sir August De Wynter from destroying the world with a weather changing machine. full summary | add synopsis
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1 win
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9 nominations
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(17 articles)
Uma Thurman Says Motherhood Is the ‘Best Kept Secret’
(From People - CelebrityBabies. 27 October 2009, 11:00 AM, PDT)
Uma Thurman to Walk Red Carpet For Opening Night of 45th Chicago International Film Festival
(From HollywoodChicago.com. 23 September 2009, 5:09 PM, PDT)
(From People - CelebrityBabies. 27 October 2009, 11:00 AM, PDT)
Uma Thurman to Walk Red Carpet For Opening Night of 45th Chicago International Film Festival
(From HollywoodChicago.com. 23 September 2009, 5:09 PM, PDT)
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Who let the air out?
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Ralph Fiennes | ... | John Steed |
 | Uma Thurman | ... | Emma Peel |
 | Sean Connery | ... | Sir August de Wynter |
 | Patrick Macnee | ... | Invisible Jones (voice) |
 | Jim Broadbent | ... | Mother |
| Fiona Shaw | ... | Father |
 | Eddie Izzard | ... | Bailey |
| Eileen Atkins | ... | Alice |
| John Wood | ... | Trubshaw |
| Carmen Ejogo | ... | Brenda |
 | Keeley Hawes | ... | Tamara |
| Shaun Ryder | ... | Donavan |
| Nicholas Woodeson | ... | Dr. Darling |
| Michael Godley | ... | Butler |
| Richard Lumsden | ... | Boodle's Porter |
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Rated PG-13 for brief strong language.
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87 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Philippines:G |
Canada:PG (Ontario) |
South Korea:12 |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:PG |
Finland:K-12 |
France:U |
Germany:12 |
Iceland:10 (original rating) |
Iceland:12 (video rating) |
Netherlands:12 |
Portugal:M/12 |
Singapore:PG |
Spain:T |
Sweden:11 |
Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) |
UK:12 |
USA:PG-13 (certificate #36085)
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Sean Connery, the original James Bond on film, co-stars in this film with Uma Thurman, the second Emma Peel. 'Diana Rigg', the original Emma Peel, co-stars with George Lazenby, the second James Bond, in _On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)_.
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Continuity: Towards the end of the movie, the Westminster clock (AKA Big Ben) is destroyed by a lightning strike. The very last shot of the film shows a wide angle of Westminster, and the clock tower is restored.
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Quotes:
Sir August de Wynter:
Nothing is impossible, only mathematically improbable.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in "Troldspejlet: (#21.12)" (1999)
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Soundtrack:
I AM
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Was this film meant to be satiric in some way? Or was it just a bad film?Did Roger Lloyd Pack Appear in This Film?
Is There a Plan to Release a Directors Cut?
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Uma Thurman's catsuits aside, "The Avengers" is one of the flattest movies to come down the pike in a long time.
The failing Sean Connery isn't really the villain in this movie, the true villains are a director who thought he could "improve" on the original, and an editor who really shouldn't have been let out of film school.
Fiennes and Thurman do an adquate job with what they were given, which wasn't much, and then the editor took half of that away.
Connery got one half-choked off rant, (all of which you see in the trailer) and then hid in the leftover set for the power supply from the floating city in "The Empire Strikes Out" (Er -- "Back"). A pathetic effort from a formerly stellar actor.
Eileen Atkins was rather fun as Alice, Steed's minder, and the guest appearance by Patrick Macnee was somewhat amusing.
As for the writing, well.... I think (despite the credits) they actually gave the job to a couple of public school lads who rather thought that they were being clever.
Overall, not worth the money spent to make it, nor the $6 I paid to see it. One star, mostly for some rather nice, if somewhat generic, cinematography.