Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) is a member of the Men in Black (M.I.B.), a secret non-government agency that polices extraterrestrial alien refugees living in disguise in and around New York City. Operating from a base at a Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority ventilation station, the MIB fund themselves with patents based on alien technologies. They maintian their anominity by using neuralyzers to erase witness's memories of alien sightings and by assisting aliens to disguise themselves as humans and indigeouness animals. Currently, the MIB monitors about 1500 aliens around the world, mainly in the vicinity of New York.
One night, K and his partner, D (Richard Hamilton), intercept a truck containing illegal immigrants and an extraterrestrial disguised as a human. They come upon the Border Patrol, who have already stopped the truck. After unmasking the alien, it starts to run, easily knocking D out of its way. K is forced to destroy it and the MIB neuralize all of the witnesses. D, feeling too old, asks K to neuralize him into "retirement". Later, the MIB leader, Agent Zed (Rip Torn), suggests that K should start searching for his new partner.
Meanwhile, James Darrell Edwards III (Will Smith) is a New York police officer pursuing a man on foot. While chasing the incredibly fast and agile fugitive over the rooftops, Edwards sees the man's eyes change, making him realize he must be chasing an alien. The alien then jumps to his death off the roof they are on. K arrives at the precinct station and questions Edwards before neuralyzing him. He also leaves the cop a MIB business card. Later, Edwards goes to MIB's secret headquarters and competes with several other military specialists in tests to determine who would be the best of the best for recruitment into the MIB. After they finish the test, K takes him aside (while the others are neuralyzed) and offers him the choice to join M.I.B. After thinking about it all night, Edwards accepts and his identity is erased, becoming Agent J.
Suspicious of extraterrestrials suddenly leaving the planet en masse, the M.I.B. investigate a farmer named Edgar (Vincent D'Onofrio), who was acting strangely after an alien craft crashed on his farm. K determines that Edgar has been killed and his skin is being used for cover by a "Bug", a member of a giant cockroach-like species that are at war with several alien races, including the Arquillians. An Arquillian prince hiding in Brooklyn named Rosenberg (disguised as a human jewelry store owner) is attacked by the Bug, and tells J "the galaxy is on Orion's belt" as he dies.
M.I.B. informant Frank the Pug (Tim Blaney), a Remoonian disguised as a dog, explains that the missing galaxy is a massive source of sub-atomic energy that would allow the Bugs to destroy the Arquillians, and is housed in a small jewel that Rosenberg was guarding. Unfortunately, The Bug figures out the galaxy is hanging from the collar of Rosenberg's cat Orion, which refuses to leave the prince's body at the morgue. Orion has been taken care of by Dr. Laurel Weaver (Linda Fiorentino) since his owner's death. J makes the same deduction and arrives at the morgue just as the Bug kidnaps Weaver a grabs the galaxy. To prevent the Bugs from getting the galaxy, the Arquillians deliver an ultimatum to M.I.B. to secure the galaxy within an hour, or they will destroy Earth.
The Bug arrives at the site of two concealed flying saucers, the observation towers of the New York State Pavilion at Flushing Meadows, and K and J are close behind, shooting down one of the crafts. The Bug sheds Edgar's body and swa
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Men in Black is a 1997 science fiction action comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, produced by Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald and starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith. The film was based on Lowell Cunningham's The Men in Black comic book series, originally published by Aircel Comics. The film featured the creature effects and makeup of Rick Baker. The film was released on July 2, 1997, by Columbia Pictures and grossed $589,390,539 worldwide against a $90 million budget.
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