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Synopsis: Obsessed with bringing terrorist Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage) to justice, FBI agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) tracks down Troy, who has boarded a plane in Los Angeles. After the plane crashes and Troy is severely injured, possibly dead, Archer undergoes surgery to remove his face and replace it with Troy's. As Archer tries to use his disguise to elicit information about a bomb from Troy's brother, Troy awakes from a coma and forces the doctor who performed the surgery to give him Archer's face.
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Production: Paramount Pictures
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 11 wins & 21 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
82
Rotten Tomatoes:
92%
R
Year:
1997
138 min
1,697 Views


He hangs up and glances at the threatening men. The WIRY

HOOD takes Barnes's glasses and snaps them in two.

INT. BAY VIEW HOTEL -- LOBBY -- NIGHT

Rain-soaked, POLLUX TROY (30's) anxiously checks in. He's a

human hummingbird -- skittish, edgy, a bit paranoid.

CLERK:

-- I do have something on

the 26th floor facing west

-- but there's no view.

POLLUX:

Yes -- there is.

POLLUX grabs the key and heads for the ELEVATOR. He holds

the elevator door open, waiting on a pair of muscular,

crystal-eyed twins -- LARS and LUNT MUELLER.

A helpful Bellhop reaches for Lars's large DUFFLE bag --

Lars yanks it back and disappears into the elevator.

INT. IDENTIFICATION FLOOR -- ANALYSIS ROOM -- SAME TIME

Chief analyst BRYCE shows a new TRAINEE the ropes. He grabs

a booking PRINT-OUT from a vacuum feeder tube: Barnes's.

BRYCE:

If this guy took a sh*t off

the London Bridge -- we'll

know about it in two seconds.

Bryce feeds the computer which WHIRS into action -- scanning

the handprint. The Trainee considers Barnes's innocently

GOOFY MUGSHOT.

TRAINEE:

This guy? I bet he never

even said the word sh*t.

FULL SCREEN -- MONITOR

BARNES'S prints match the record of one CASTOR TROY:

WANTED -- PACIFIC STOCK EXCHANGE BOMBINGS, 12 DEAD

WANTED -- ASSASSINATION OF CROATIAN AMBASSADOR

WANTED -- KIDNAPPING OF BRUNEI CROWN PRINCE

BRYCE and the TRAINEE look at each other -- stunned.

But the FELONY LIST goes on ... MURDER ... ARSON ...

KIDNAPPING ... TERRORISM ... with CD-ROM IMAGES of the

crimes. Finally ... at the bottom:

IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION ON THE WHEREABOUTS OF THIS

PERSON CALL CMD. JON ARCHER, NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY,

WEST COAST DIVISION, IMMEDIATELY.

INT. PSYCHIATRIST'S OFFICE -- NIGHT

Some office. There's a stunning 180-view of TOWERING

REDWOODS, a creek, even some ambling deer. DR. RACHEL

GARDNER (55) considers her fidgeting patient -- JON ARCHER.

Archer's around 30, decent-looking, maybe even handsome if

he ever smiled. His eyes reveal a broken soul, a soul

driven into the grip of obsession.

DR. GARDNER

How is the "date night" idea

going over with Eve?

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Mike Werb

Mike Werb is an American screenwriter, whose writing credits include Face/Off, The Mask and the story for Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. A Los Angeles native, Werb attended Stanford. He is a UCLA Film School graduate. more…

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