James Darrel Edwards is a New York City cop with an athletic physique and an anti-authoritarian attitude toward law enforcement. After chasing down a perpetrator one night who turns out to be an alien, James is recruited by "K", a veteran of a clandestine government agency policing the comings and goings of aliens on planet Earth. Nicknamed the "men in black" for their uniform of black suit, shoes, tie, and sunglasses, the agents are assigned to recover a bauble that's been stolen by an intergalactic terrorist. It turns out to be the galaxy itself, and its theft has placed humanity in the center of what's shaping up to become an interstellar war, unless K and his new partner, renamed "J," can stop it. On their side but in the dark is the city medical examiner who has been zapped one too many times by K's ingenious memory-removing device. Starring Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Vincent D'Onofrio and Linda Fiorentino. Released in 1997.

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