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Conspiracy Theory
1997
A crackpot Big Apple cabbie finds himself in a heap of trouble after his self-published conspiracy 'zine elicits the interest of some shady government heavies--and leads to the unexplained murders of all five subscribers. As the J. Edgars close in, he takes to the lam with the one person who may be able to help him--a Justice .. Read more
| Starring | Julia Roberts, Mel Gibson, Patrick Stewart, Terence Alexander |
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| Director | Richard Donner |
| Genres | Thriller |
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Conspiracy Theory
A crackpot Big Apple cabbie finds himself in a heap of trouble after his self-published conspiracy 'zine elicits the interest of some shady government heavies--and leads to the unexplained murders of all five subscribers. As the J. Edgars close in, he takes to the lam with the one person who may be able to help him--a Justice Department attorney with a mysterious murder of her own to solve.
| Starring | Julia Roberts, Mel Gibson, Patrick Stewart, Terence Alexander, Alex McArthur, George Aguilar, Brian J. Williams, Cylk Cozart, Stephen Kahan |
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| Director | Richard Donner |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 10 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Thriller |
| Language | English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | Arabic, English |
| Released | DVD: 25 Sep 1998 Production year: 1997 |
| Format | DVD |
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Mel Gibson plays a neurotic New York cabby who's consumed by wild conspiracy theories and their implications in this uneven romantic comedy thriller from director Richard Donner. It's the newsletter Gibson produces that suddenly intensifies interest in him from ominous parties such as creepy Patrick Stewart, who may work for the CIA. But that's only the half of it, because when he turns to Justice Department attorney Julia Roberts for help, the MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE-like plot takes off. Donner glosses over the improbabilities with his usual considerable style and bravura, and Gibson and Roberts make an engaging team, but the uneasy combination of light laughs and unsavoury darkness eventually conspires against it. Conspiracy theorists will love it, though.
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Jabbering Mel Gibson is clearly a Manhattan cabbie with a troubled past, and his pursuit of upper-bracket love interest... read more on Time Out
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9 out of 9 people found this review helpful
Gibson at his best
This is a great film that skews between breathless thriller, dark comedy and slapstick often in the same scene. Mel Gibson as raving paranoid crazy jerry is superb, showing him to be a talented actor who all too often lets himself down in films. Patrick Stewart is nicely disconcerting and remorseless as the fabled "THEM" and is a calm and collected foil to gibson's twitching loon.
The only downpoint I'd say is Julia Roberts, she, as always, doesn't seem to have more than one facial expression, which is disappointing as her character could have been explored a lot more. -
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Julia Roberts is in talks to star alongside Tom Hanks in the movie Charlie Wilson's War. The Notting Hill actress would team up again with Closer director Mike Nichols for the project that tells the true story of Texas congressman Charlie Wilson who helped to fund Afghan rebels in the 1980s against USSR forces. The star of Michael Collins, Hook and Conspiracy Theory is lined up to feature as Texan socialite who persuades Wilson to get involved in the CIA plot. Roberts has been off the big... Read more
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