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| - The eponymous Smiths are a couple who have been married for five or six years. After meeting each other while vacationing in Colombia, the two married and settled down to a quiet, white-collar life in Suburbia -- which is now suffocating them. In reality, John Smith (Brad Pitt) is a secret agent -- his latest assignment is to take out a hit on a man called "The Tank". By a staggering coincidence, his wife Jane (Angelina Jolie) is an assassin from a rival agency -- who is also set to take down "The Tank". Upon discovering each other's identities, the Smiths are told by their employers to take each other out, leading to results that range from your standard Slap Slap Kiss all the way up to Domestic Abuse. Things are not as they seem, however -- when both Smiths are attacked by their former employers, John and Jane realise that if they are going to live (and keep their marriage intact), they're going to have to work together both as assassins and as a couple. Mr. and Mrs. Smith, in spite of mixed critical reviews, did well at the box office and received a lot of media attention; this attention was mainly due to Pitt and Jolie meeting on set and, in their words, "falling in love" (even though Pitt was still married to Jennifer Aniston at the time). Critics who didn't enjoy the movie even admitted the the couple had great chemistry. Not to be confused with the 1941 screwball comedy directed by Alfred Hitchcock (where a couple who have been married three years find out that they aren't really married) or the 1996 TV series (where two spies are forced to work together under the codenames Mr. and Mrs. Smith).
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