Product Review

Conspiracy Theory (DVD)

Academy Award winners Julia Roberts and Mel Gibson team up for the firsttime in this taut thriller of a beautiful Justice Department attorneyentangled in a paranoid cab driver's Conspiracy Theory. In an age whenthe media and the Internet crackle with stories of conspiracies andcover-ups, New York taxi driver Jerry Fletcher (Gibson--Braveheart,Lethal Weapon films) compiles bits of rumors, scraps of information andpieces of his dimly remembered checkered past into a newsletterdetailing outlandish plots. He brings these warnings to the attention ofAlice Sutton (Roberts--Erin Brockovich, Pretty Woman), a governmentlawyer he feels strangely connected to. Although Alice doesn't believeJerry's seemingly ridiculous ideas, his fears prove all too real when ahorrific encounter plunges them both into a whirlpool of deceit,treachery and murder.