Conspiracy Theory

Conspiracy Theory is a 1997 American action/paranoid abstruseness blur directed by Richard Donner. The aboriginal cine by Brian Helgeland centers on an aberrant auto disciplinarian who believes abounding apple contest are triggered by government conspiracies.

Jerry Fletcher (Mel Gibson) is a mentally ambiguous New York City auto disciplinarian who lectures his cartage on assorted cabal theories. Jerry loves a babe but hasn't told her - he says "I accept some problems..." One night as he is driving, the strobing lights of admonishing signals and a worker's arc welder activate abstruse memories in Jerry's arch (involving a abstruse doctor, a continued needle, lights aflame on and off actual fast, and "Chow Hound" clips) - Jerry goes crazy and about crashes the cab. Jerry parks abreast the girl's accommodation and watches her active on her treadmill while singing, finds the aforementioned radio station, and sings along. Back he leaves, he stops to buy a assemblage of newspapers from Flip, a bedridden Vietnam veteran. Jerry afresh parks by application his cab to boost addition car abroad from a parking amplitude and enters his accommodation via a aberrant route. Jerry goes to assignment abridgement and filing account accessories and publishing a newsletter blue-blooded "Conspiracy Theory." The abutting morning he mails out the newsletter one archetype at a time via letter boxes.

Jerry goes to the Justice Department, to appointment the girl, Alice Sutton (Julia Roberts) who works for the DA. She is additionally aggravating to break her father's murder, which had taken abode some years earlier. Jerry tells her that NASA is aggravating to annihilate the President application a abstruse weapon on the Amplitude Shuttle that can activate earthquakes. Alice is accommodating with him but throws him out back he asks her out for a date.

Jerry IDs some men on the artery as CIA, follows them into a building, and is captured by them. He wakes up in an anonymous architecture apprenticed to a wheelchair with aqueduct tape. A doctor (Patrick Stewart) tapes his eyes open, injects him with a biologic he calls "Gravy for the brain" (LSD), and interrogates him application strobe lights and baptize torture. He wants to apperceive who Jerry's been talking to. As the LSD bliss in Jerry remembers abounding antecedent sessions, which he sees as alarming cartoons complete with actual alarming music (the "Chow Hound" bi-weekly is apparent afresh in this agonizing scene). As the doctor leans closer, Jerry bites the doctor's adenoids and makes an amazing escape, still apprenticed to the wheelchair. He crashes bottomward stairs, breaking the wheelchair, which impales him with one of its parts. He shuts himself in a laundry truck, and as it drives abroad we see a assurance that indicates that the architecture is a brainy hospital. Jerry goes to Alice's appointment afresh and grabs a guard's gun, collapses in Alice's accoutrements afterwards babbling incoherently about bitter off someone's nose.

Alice visits Jerry in the hospital. Handcuffed to the bed and benumbed to force him to sleep, he pleads with her to about-face his blueprint with that of a bent in the abutting bed. He says if she doesn't do so, he will be asleep by morning. In the morning, back Alice visits again, the bent is dead, as he has suffered a abstruse affection advance during the night. The CIA, FBI and added agencies are there. She meets a abstruse CIA psychiatrist, Dr. Jonas, whose adenoids has been injured. Jonas tells Alice his dog bit it. Meanwhile Jerry fakes a affection advance and escapes again. Alice finds him and tells him of Jonas' affirmation about the dog. Jerry says "Arf." She frees him from his handcuffs; he drops bottomward a linen channel and escapes.

Jonas quizzes Alice over lunch; she explains that Jerry adored her from muggers once, so she tolerates him. In Jerry's hospital allowance she finds a archetype of The Catcher in the Rye. As she discusses it with an FBI administrator called Lowry, the CIA appear and accroach all of Jerry's claimed items. Lowry offers to allotment advice with her but she declines.

The CIA cannot acquisition Jerry. Alice goes to her car, and finds Jerry ambuscade in it. She loses Lowry who is tailing them, and afresh they go to Jerry's accommodation area he tells her about his cabal theories and his newsletter. He has dozens of copies of Catcher - feels accountable to buy it, but doesn't apperceive why. They are disconnected back Jerry's home-made anxiety goes off, signaling the access of a CIA SWAT team. Jerry sets aggregate on blaze and they leave by his abstruse trapdoor exit. In the allowance below, there is a ample mural on the wall, which appearance both Alice and the amateur smokestacks of a branch abreast the brainy institution.

They go to her accommodation and he says article that reveals he's been watching her active on her treadmill. She bliss him out. Outside, Jerry confronts Lowry and his accomplice staking out her place, and he warns them not to aching her. He goes to a book abundance and buys a archetype of Catcher. The CIA detects his purchase, and sends agents to bolt him. Jerry sees their atramentous helicopters and men rappelling down, and like Lee Harvey Oswald, goes into a theater. He yells "there's a bomb beneath my chair" and manages to escape during the resultant panic.

The abutting morning Alice has been calling anniversary being who gets the newsletter, and they all accept all died that night except one. Jerry uses a angle to get her out of the office, and afresh attaches cables from the CIA agent afterward her to a vendor's cart. On a bus they altercate added of his theories about "they" and "them." In a alms base area one Herriman drowned in addition conspiracy, she agrees to analysis the autopsy. He says he loves her and she rejects him.

Alice goes to see the aftermost actual being on the cable list, and it is Jonas. He explains that Jerry was an MK-ULTRA accountable but the activity was concluded - except for his research. Jonas shows her a photo of her ancestor taken from Jerry's locker, and claims that Jerry went out of ascendancy and asleep her father. She is crushed.

Jerry sends Alice a pizza and says to accommodated him. Jonas gets her to accede to a homing accessory in the pizza box and Jerry drives her with the box beyond the Queensboro bridge. He has fabricated antecedent arrange that accredit him to canal the agents afterward them, abrogation the homing accessory behind. As he drives her to her father's clandestine horse stables, he tells her that he can about bethink what happened and is demography her to area "the music is playing." Alice turns on her adaptable buzz so they can still clue her. At the stables Jerry remembers that he was beatific to annihilate her ancestor (a adjudicator who was about to betrayal Jonas' operation) but begin he couldn't annihilate him. Instead they became accompany and Jerry promised to watch over Alice afore the adjudicator was asleep by addition assassin. She admits she switched the archive in the hospital. The CIA access and abduction Jerry. Jonas gloats but Jerry says, "you haven't apparent her run." Alice outruns the men; a assassin misses her, killing the aftermost guy block her, and she escapes.

Jonas tortures Jerry again. Meanwhile, Alice leads the FBI men (who are not absolutely FBI but from a "secret bureau that watches the added agencies") to Jonas' office, but it has been absolutely dismantled. She is bent to acquisition Jerry because, she says, he would acquisition her. She realizes that a detail of Jerry's ample mural is abreast a brainy hospital and goes there. She bribes an accessory to appearance her an bare wing, break in through bound doors, and finds Jerry afterwards audition him singing through the blast ducts. As Jonas catches them, Lowry arrives with his men and attacks Jonas's men. Jonas shoots Jerry and Alice shoots Jonas dead. Alice tells Jerry she loves him as he is taken abroad in an ambulance.

Some time later, Alice visits Jerry's grave. As she rides abroad we see Jerry, Lowry and Flip watching her. Jerry isn't accustomed to acquaintance her until they are abiding they accept angled up all of Jonas' added subjects. He secretly lets her apperceive he is still animate and the blur ends.

Cast

* Mel Gibson as Jerry Fletcher

* Julia Roberts as Alice Sutton

* Patrick Stewart as Dr. Jonas

* Cylk Cozart as Agent Lowry

* Steve Kahan as Mr. Wilson

* Pete Koch as Blaze Captain

* Dean Winters as Cleet

* Sean Patrick Thomas as Surveillance Operator

* Joan Lunden as TV Announcer

* Rick Hoffman as Night Security

* Richard Donner as Cab Passenger