Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a
American romantic action comedy film,
directed by
Doug Liman and written by
Simon Kinberg. The original music score was composed by
John Powell. The film stars
Brad Pitt and
Angelina Jolie as a bored married couple who learn that they are both assassins hired by competing agencies to kill each other. A
novelisation of the film was written by Cathy East Dubowski.
Plot
The film opens with John (
Brad Pitt) and Jane Smith (
Angelina Jolie) answering questions during
marriage counseling. The couple has been married for "five or six" years, but their marriage is suffering to the point that they cannot remember the last time they had sex. They tell the story of their first meeting in
Bogotá,
Colombia, where they met while both were secretly on the run from Colombian authorities. They quickly fell in love and were married. John later states that Jane "looked like
Christmas morning" to him on the day they met.