SPY KIDS

Year: 2001
USA: Dimension Films
UK: Buena Vista International
Cast: Antonio Baderas, George Clooney, Alan Cumming, Carla Gugino, Teri Hatcher, Robert Patrick, Tony Shalhoub, Ashley Edner, Angela Lanza, Cheech Marin, Daryl Sabara, Danny Trejo, Alexa Vega
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Country: USA
USA: 90 mins
UK: 87 mins
USA Rated: PG for action sequences and brief language
UK Certificate: U contains infrequent mild comic violence
USA Release Date: 8 August 2001 (Re-Release - entitled SPY KIDS: SPECIAL EDITION extra footage and effects)
USA Release Date: 30 March 2001
UK Release Date: 13 April 2001



Synopsis

Gregorio Cortez (Antonio Banderas) and Ingrid (Carla Gugino) are the two greatest secret agents the world has ever known: masters of disguise - mavens of invention - able to stop wars before they even start. Working for separate countries they are sent to eliminate their most dangerous enemy, each other, but in an exotic corner of the world when they finally come face to face they fall in love instead and embark on the most dangerous mission they have ever faced - raising a family.

Now 9 years later after their retirement having exchanged the adventure of espionage for parenthood Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez are called back into action. When their former colleagues the most formidable spies start disappearing one by one the Cortez's are forced to take on techno-wizard Fegan Floop (Alan Cumming) and his evil egg headed sidekick Minion (Tony Shalhoub). But when the unthinkable happens and they too disappear there are only two people in the world who can rescue them...their kids.

Armed with high tech gadgets and out -of-this-world transportation Carmen (Alexa Vega) and Juni Cortez (Daryl Sabara) will bravely jet through the air, dive under the seas and criss-cross the globe in a series of thrilling adventures on a mission to stop Floop, save their parents...and maybe even the world. Some times the biggest heroes are the smallest ones.