No, It's Your Turn to Clean Up

By Barbara Kiviat

Marriage can be a pill. Especially when you have been hired to kill your husband and--unbeknownst to you--he has been retained to return the favor. In next June's Mr. and Mrs. Smith, BRAD PITT and ANGELINA JOLIE play married assassins who keep their real identities secret until they each get assigned a job that hits a little too close to home. The fallout is matrimonial as much as it is martial. Now, don't worry: there are still pyrotechnics and Jolie's trademark self-performed stunts. But in the end, the characters find that the toughest thing about a day at the office is coming home afterward. "We're impressed by the wrong things," says director Doug Liman, who did the Bourne action-adventure franchise. "Try to make a woman happy for six years of marriage. I'd like to see James Bond do that."