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The Avengers

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Saturday at 8.30pm

London, the 1960s.  A cultural revolution is happening and London is the epicenter of the youthquake - mod clothes, the Beatles, pop art and THE AVENGERS.

London, the 1990s.  The city is once again a hotbed of activity signaling the world to make way for the millennium.  Fin-de-siècle nihilism alongside revisionist spiritualism, old-guard capitalism clashing with global-concern idealism, a nostalgia for the past rethought to serve the present.  Time once again for heroes with style to burn.  Time once again for John Steed and Emma Peel.

John Steed (Ralph Fiennes) has been called by The Ministry (Britain's ultra-top-secret secret agency) to investigate some very strange goings-on in Her Majesty's kingdom.  The weather seems out of control, foul, deadly -- even for England.  Freak snowstorms, hail of Old Testament proportions, temperatures wildly fluctuating from blast furnace to Arctic.  Someone is trying to control the weather, literally, and bring the country and the world to its knees.  Who could master such a plan, such a brilliant and demonic attempt to extort the riches of nations in return for a temperate day?  All bets are on Sir August De Wynter (Sean Connery), former Ministry man, very rich, very odd, entirely too smart.

Preparing to fight fire (or snow or hail) with fire, Steed is paired with the unflappable Mrs. Emma Peel (Uma Thurman), a master of jujitsu, a doctor of meteorological science and a body made for haute couture.

Steed and Peel, with martini-dry wit and icy sexiness, are here for a new age of cool.

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