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Agent Cody Banks is a
movie released in the
U.S. on
March 14,
2003 that follows the adventures of 15-year-old Cody Banks (played by
Frankie Muniz) who has to finish his chores, avoid getting grounded, and save the
world by going
undercover for the
CIA.
Hilary Duff (Natalie Connors),
Angie Harmon (Ronica Miles),
Keith David (CIA Director),
Ian McShane (Brinkman), and
Arnold Vosloo (Molay) are the co-stars. The film is directed by the Norwegian director
Harald Zwart, known from such films as
One Night at McCool's and
Hamilton.
Of note, this film was the first major motion picture project for Duff apart from the film spinoff of her
Lizzie McGuire TV series. The same can be said for Harmon, who had just come off a three-year stint as Assistant D.A. Abbie Carmichael on
Law & Order.
The film is also interesting in that it showcases such cutting-edge vehicles as the
Segway and
SoloTrek XFV.
Cody Banks is a 15-year-old boy who applies for a junior position for the
CIA. Under the disguise of
summer camp, children are trained to be agents. Cody is called upon a mission to find information about an evil mastermind by going to his daughter, Natalie Connors' (Hilary Duff), school. Cody accepts but soon finds he has no social skill with girls and has no time to do this while balencing his chores and homework. The CIA decides to help by doing his chores and homework, trying to build his status, and going into the school to sent him up with Natalie. Natalie finally decides to invite Cody to her 16th birthday party where he goes undercover to her fathers lab. Cody finds that her father is planning to use micro-technology which could kill someone to infect the world so he can threaten anyone who opposes him. He plans to use
icecubes to distribute them.
Cody soon falls in love and almost ruins the whole operation by telling Natalie everything. After finding out, her father then kidnaps Natalie into his base in the mountains. For telling him this Cody is fired from his position and his parents learn of his identity as Agent Cody Banks. His parents then ground him for this. But Cody is set on rescuing Natalie. Cody asks his brother to make sure his parents don't find out. Cody manages to sneak into the CIA weapons hold and steals a rocket powered
snowboard and other devices. Cody then gets a ride to the top of the mountain and snowboads to the factory where Natalie is held. On the way e gets caught in a grove of trees as a CIA agent finds him using a SoloTrek XFV (see above). Cody convinces the agent that he needed to save Natalie and the two sneak into the facotry. Cody manages to rescue Natalie but is caught going out. Natalie is held hostage by her own father and is threatened to be killed by Nanochips. Cody turns the tables but planting a
time bomb. Startled, Natalie gets away and runs to a chopper with the CIA agent piloting. Cody manages to barely escape and they fly home. Cody is given many awards and is reinstated into the CIA His parents memory is also erased.
The main characters attend "William Donovan Preparatory School".
William Joseph Donovan ran the World War II
Office of Strategic Services, prededcessor to the CIA.
A
sequel,
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London, was released the following year.
The
WB Television Network aired the movie on Monday February 20, 2006 at 8:00 p.m. EST/PST
The WB edited the film for time, so 17 minutes of the original feature length film was cut.
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Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London*
Frankie Muniz*
Hilary Duff*
Harald Zwart* (Agent Cody Banks's WB Page)
