Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
- Doug Liman originally wanted a completely different ending for the film, but test audiences preferred the one we see today.
- Before Brad Pitt was cast, several major A-list stars turned down the lead role because they felt the script was too risky.
- The incredible score for Mr. & Mrs. Smith was composed in just a few weeks after the original composer dropped out.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a 2005 American romantic action comedy film directed by Doug Liman. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie star as John and Jane Smith, a married couple in suburban America whose marriage has grown stale after five or six years of apparent domesticity.
Unbeknownst to each other, both are secretly highly skilled assassins working for competing agencies. When they are separately assigned to kill the same target and discover each other's true identities, their respective organizations order each to eliminate the other, transforming their marital discord into literal domestic warfare. Mr. & Mrs.
Smith was as notable for its off-screen impact as its on-screen entertainment โ Pitt and Jolie's on-set chemistry during filming led to one of the most publicized celebrity relationships of the century, as Pitt left his wife Jennifer Aniston and began a relationship with Jolie that dominated tabloid coverage for the next decade. The film itself was a slick, entertaining action comedy that used the spy-versus-spy premise as a surprisingly effective metaphor for the secrets and power struggles within real marriages. The couple's climactic fight, which destroys their suburban home before transforming into passionate reconciliation, was a darkly comic highlight.
Doug Liman's direction brought the same kinetic energy he had demonstrated in The Bourne Identity. Mr. & Mrs. Smith earned $478 million worldwide on a $110 million budget.
