giant bugs...eewww

In the 1950s a super-secret government agency was formed to monitor and police the activities of extraterrestrial aliens on the planet Earth. Some 40 years later a founding father of the agency, Agent Kay (Tommy Lee Jones), finds himself with a new smart-mouthed partner fresh from the NYPD who is soon dubbed Agent Jay (Will Smith). Their first mission is to save the Earth from destruction by a giant insectlike alien (Vincent D?Onfrio) that, incidentally, drives an exterminator?s truck. Armed with their matching Ray-Bans, skinny ties, and space-age weapons that Jay barely understands--he calls the Neuralyzer the "flashy thing"--the new duo begin another average day of fighting intergalactic terrorists. An amazingly hip and terribly clever movie that riffs on everything from E.T.--THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL to CASABLANCA, this Barry Sonnenfeld film is based on the equally savvy comic book by Lowell Cunningham.

Cast: Vincent D'Onofrio, Will Smith, Rip Torn, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Fiorentino, Becky Ann Baker, John Alexander, Richard Hamilton, Keith Campbell, Harsh Nayyar, Sean Whalen, Debbie Lee Carrington, Tony Shalhoub, Ken Thorley, Mike Nussbaum, Michael Kaliski, David Cross, Jon Gries, Siobhan Fallon, Carel Struycken, Charles C. Stevenson, Jr., Patrick Breen, Michael Willis, James Murray, Boris Leskin, Tim Blaney, Brad Abrell, Thom Fountain, Alpheus Merchant, Carl Johnson, Verne Troyer, Kent Faulcon, Sergio Calderon, Howard Berger, Earl C. Ellis, Jr., Michael Goldfinger, Willie C. Carpenter, Peter Linari, Andy Prosky, Greg Williams, Steven Sherman, Erich Fiedler, Len Levitt, Ed Alonzon, Steve Rankin, Bart Mixon, Jurgen Heimann, Mark Setrakian, Tim Ralston, Wayne Toth, Mike Elizalde, Richard Arthur, Paul Berg, Bill Bryan, Richard Galinson, Bernard Gilkey, Norma Jean Groh, Terri Hardin, Robin Howard, Fredric Lane, John Lundberg, Leonard MacDonald, Drew Massey, Todd Mattox, Sean Plummer, Clint Richards, Steven Ritz, Doug Seymore, Rico Topazio, Allan Trautman, Mykal Wayne Williams

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld

Genre: Comedy

Release Date: July 2, 1997

Screen Writer: Ed Solomon

Runtime: 1hr 38min