U.S. Marshals (film)

U.S. Marshals (film)

Infobox_Film
name=U.S. Marshals


imdb_id=0120873
writer=Roy Huggins
John Pogue
starring=Tommy Lee Jones
Wesley Snipes
Robert Downey Jr.
Joe Pantoliano
director=Stuart Baird
producer=Anne Kopelson
Arnold Kopelson
music=Jerry Goldsmith | distributor=Warner Bros. Pictures
released=March 6, 1998
runtime=131 min.
language=English
movie_series=
awards=
budget= $60,000,000 (estimated) preceded_by = The Fugitive|

"U.S. Marshals" is a 1998 action thriller, and a sequel to the "The Fugitive". While the storyline of U.S. Marshals does not feature the character Dr. Richard Kimble, it does follow the same team of Marshals, led by Samuel Gerard, as in "The Fugitive".

Plot synopsis

The film opens with video tape of an exchange between two men taking place in a parking garage which appears to be foiled by the U.S. State Department's Diplomatic Security Service (DSS), but it is unclear what has transpired in the opening sequence. Mark Warren (Wesley Snipes) is arrested after a routine traffic accident allowing police to discover he is a wanted federal fugitive by the name of Mark Roberts. While being transported to New York by plane, Roberts shares the flight with Deputy U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones) who is traveling under the orders of his boss in an unrelated matter. A Chinese prisoner attempts to assassinate Roberts by shooting him with a zip gun concealed in a toilet paper holder but the attempt fails; it results in a plane crash due to the gunshot which traveled through a window, depressurizing the plane cabin. After all the other prisoners are accounted for, Gerard discovers Roberts is missing and has become a fugitive again. According to U.S. Diplomatic Security Service officials, Roberts is actually Mark Sheridan who was an operative in a mission that went bad (the video tape in the opening sequence). Sheridan was framed for murdering fellow DSS agents, resulting in his criminal record. Federal officials are attempting to find a mole in the agency suspected of selling secrets to the Chinese government. DSS Special Agent John Royce (Robert Downey Jr.) joins Gerard and his team in the search. During the search, Gerard learns that Roberts is actually Mark J. Sheridan and was likely framed for the crimes he is accused of. Eventually, he catches Sheridan and learns that Royce is the mole in the U.S. State Department and responsible for the original murders for which Sheridan was accused. Gerard kills him after he catches him trying to kill Sheridan. Sheridan is released and is reunited with his girlfriend. Gerard and his team celebrate a toast for Newman.

Cast

*Tommy Lee Jones - Chief Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard
*Wesley Snipes - Mark J. Sheridan/Warren/Roberts
*Robert Downey Jr. - Special Agent John Royce, Diplomatic Security Service
*Joe Pantoliano - Deputy Marshal Cosmo Renfro
*Daniel Roebuck - Deputy Marshal Bobby Biggs
*Tom Wood - Deputy Marshal Noah Newman
*Latanya Richardson - Deputy Marshal Savannah Cooper
*Irène Jacob - Marie Bineaux, Mark's Girlfriend
*Kate Nelligan - United States Marshal Catherine Walsh
*Patrick Malahide - Special Agent Bertram Lamb, Director of the Diplomatic Security Service
*Rick Snyder - Special Agent Frank Barrows, Diplomatic Security Service
*Michael Paul Chan - Xian Chen, U.N. Cultural Attache of China
*Johnny Lee Davenport - Deputy Marshal Henry
*Donald Li - Detective Kim
*Marc Vann - Deputy Jackson

Inaccuracies

When the plane carrying the prisoners crash-lands in the water, Gerard electronically releases most of the prisoners from a restraint system that includes a chain which is attached to the cabin floor. He also has to manually free several prisoners whose chains do not automatically release. In reality, prisoners being transported on JPATS are not restrained to the seat or plane in any way due to FAA regulations.

Trivia

*After the car accident Mark is sent to Chicago Memorial Hospital, the same hospital Dr. Richard Kimble works at in "The Fugitive".

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