Conspiracy Theory [Blu-ray]

Director: Richard Donner Richard Donner

Overview

Jerry Fletcher (Mel Gibson) is a New York City cab driver who seems to have absorbed every bit of crackpot information passed along as "suppressed news" that's surfaced on talk radio or the Internet in the past 20 years. Anti-United Nations militia men who are actually U.N. operatives? NASA scientists engineering earthquakes? Oliver Stone's secret life as a government agent discrediting conspiracy theorists? Jerry's heard 'em all and believes most of them, and even publishes his own journal of forbidden information, with a subscription list that now totals five people. In short, Jerry seems like just another New York City lunatic, and while he spends a fair amount of his spare time following Alice Sutton (Julia Roberts), a government attorney, Alice regards him as harmless; he once intervened while she was being mugged, and he's been acting like her benign if whacked-out protector ever since. However, one day Jerry is kidnapped and worked over by CIA operatives; he is convinced that one of the theories he uncovered must be for real -- but he has no idea which one. He tries to get Alice to help him, and before long both are drawn into a dangerous web that leads to a startling revelation of just how Jerry got this way. Mel Gibson gives a fine comic performance, and those with a taste for alternative media will have fun dissecting which of the theories Jerry spouts are "real" (or at least appeared before this film was made) and which were the invention of the screenwriters.

Product Details

Release Date:	04/22/2014
UPC:	0883929375110
Original Release:	1997
Rating:	R
Source:	Warner Home Video
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	2:15:00
Sales rank:	14,386

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Mel Gibson	Jerry Fletcher,Roosevelt Hospital Doctor
Julia Roberts	Alice Sutton
Patrick Stewart	Dr. Jonas
Cylk Cozart	Agent Lowry
Stephen Kahan	Mr. Wilson,Actor
Terry Alexander	Flip,Actor
Alex McArthur	Cynic
Rich Herbert	Public Works Man
Brian J. Williams	Clarke
George Aguilar	Piper,Piper
Rod McLachlan	Justice Guard No. 1
Michael Potts	Justice Guard No. 2
Jim Sterling	Justice Guard No. 3
Cece Neber Labao	Finch's Secretary
Saxon Trainor	Alice's Secretary
Claudia Stedelin	Wilson's Secretary
Leonard Jackson	Old Man in Bookstore,CIA Agent
Joanna Sanchez	Roosevelt Hospital Nurse
Michael Shamus Wiles	Cop No. 1
Mik Scriba	Cop No. 2
Joshua Fardon	Hospital Guard
Rich Hebert	Actor
Patrick Wild	Intern in Jerry's Room
Mushond Lee	Intern
Kevin Kindlin	Intern
Troy Garity	Intern
J. Mills Goodloe	Jonas' Aide
Michael Kurtz	Well Dressed Man
Peter Koch	Fire Captain (as Pete Koch)
Nicholas Kusenko	CIA Agent (as Nick Kusenko)
Carter Burwell	Composer

Technical Credits

Brian Helgeland

Richard Donner	Director,Producer
Joel Silver	Producer
Jim Van Wyck	Executive Producer,Producer
Brian Helgeland	Screenwriter
Marion Dougherty	Casting
Mike Meinardus	Special Effects
Conrad Palmisano	Stunts
Julie Durk	Producer
Ilyse Reutlinger	Producer,Producer
George Simpson	Sound Editor
James Sabat	Sound/Sound Designer
Tim Cooney	Sound/Sound Designer
Dan Cracchiolo	Producer
J. Mills Goodloe	Producer