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The Avengers

Rating:PG-13 (for brief strong language.)
Genre:Action/Adventure, Comedy
Release Date:August 14, 1998
Running time:91 minutes
Cast:Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman, Sean Connery, Eddie Izzard, Eileen Atkins
Director:Jeremiah S. Chechik
Producer:Jerry Weintraub
Writer:Don MacPherson
Distributor:Warner Bros

Description: Mrs. Emma Peel and John Steed are spies who work for the secret branch of the British government called The Ministry. They are called in to investigate Prospero, a plot to blackmail Britain by controlling the weather. Emma Peel is suspected of being involved but it is discovered that she has a double who works for the real baddie, Sir August de Wynter. He threatens to freeze Britain, at one point unleashing a blizzard on Trafalgar Square.

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