Men in Black
Men in Black is a 1997 American science fiction action comedy film starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith as "men in black", government agents who monitor and police extraterrestrials. The film is directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, based on a script by Ed Solomon, that adapts the Marvel comic book series The Men in Black by Lowell Cunningham. In the film, Agent K (Jones) and Agent J (Smith) investigate a series of seemingly unrelated criminal incidents related to the extraterrestrials who live in secret on Earth. Linda Fiorentino, Vincent D'Onofrio, and Rip Torn also appear in supporting roles.
Plot
At the Mexico–United States border, two men in black suits, Agent K and Agent D, interrupt a border patrol sting. They take one of the men attempting to cross the border, who is an extraterrestrial in disguise named Mikey. When he tries to attack one of the patrol officers, K is forced to shoot him and erase the memories of everyone in the group, creating a cover story of an explosion in an underground gas pipeline. Deciding that he is too old to continue working, D chooses to retire and has K erase his memory.
Awards
Cast
- Al Roker
- Barry Sonnenfeld
- Becky Ann Baker
- Carel Struycken
- Charles C. Stevenson Jr.
- Danny DeVito
- David Cross
- Debbie Lee Carrington
- Dionne Warwick
- Fredric Lehne
- George Lucas
- Isaac Mizrahi
- Jon Gries
- Linda Fiorentino
- Michael Willis
- Patrick Breen
- Rip Torn
- Sean Whalen
- Sergio Calderón
- Siobhan Fallon Hogan
- Steve Rankin
- Steven Spielberg
- Sylvester Stallone
- Tim Blaney
- Tommy Lee Jones
- Tony Shalhoub
- Verne Troyer
- Vincent D'Onofrio
- Will Smith
- Willie C. Carpenter