Word: gugino
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Sisco works on all three levels: action, sex and emotion. As in Out of Sight, the 1998 movie (adapted from Elmore Leonard's novel) on which Sisco is based, at its core it's the story of a woman juggling work and personal life. (Carla Gugino, of Spy Kids, takes over the curvy, gun-toting J. Lo character.) After admitting to a date that she's killed two men--one with a gun, one mano a mano--Karen insists that "I'm just a girl." TV has blurred the line between "girl" and "person who kills with her bare hands...
...creeps who don't think this little girl has the guts to shoot them. Its commercial challenge is to interest viewers in a cop with a personal life, in the time slot opposite NBC's no-feelings-please juggernaut Law & Order. If anyone can do that, it's Gugino, a potential breakout star, and not only for her Lynda Carter 2.0 looks. Pursuing a con man who marries and robs lonely rich women, Karen is asked by one of his exes--who is still sweet on him--whether she'd kill him if it came to that...
...first Spy Kids we met the superspies (Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino), who married, retired, had two kids, then went back to work, this time letting Carmen (Alexa Vega) and little bro Juni (Daryl Sabara) help Dad and Mom save the world. At the end, Carmen intoned the film's family-values homily: "Spywork, that's easy. Keeping a family together, that's difficult. And that's a mission worth fighting...
...sisters, and her little brother Juni (Daryl Sabara), who has more gumption than common sense and needs lots of rescuing. To put it simply, their adventures may be fantastic, but they are also real children. It's the same with their parents (Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino). They are legendary superspies, but she has a touch of the anxious soccer mom about her, and he has a bit of the doofus in him. Any kid will recognize them. The whole family works for a federal espionage agency that's smart enough to hire eager kids as spies - hey, this...
...Carla Gugino...