Face/Off

Face/Off

Release Date

1997

Director

  • John Woo

Cast

  • John Travolta
  • Nicolas Cage
  • Joan Allen
  • Alessandro Nivola
  • Gina Gershon

To foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery to assume the identity of the criminal mastermind who murdered his only son, but the criminal wakes up prematurely and seeks revenge.

    Obsessed with bringing terrorist Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage) to justice, FBI agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) tracks down Troy, who has boarded a plane in Los Angeles. After the plane crashes and Troy is severely injured, possibly dead, Archer undergoes surgery to remove his face and replace it with Troy’s. As Archer tries to use his disguise to elicit information about a bomb from Troy’s brother, Troy awakes from a coma and forces the doctor who performed the surgery to give him Archer’s face.

    Photo credit: Buena Vista

    Past Programs

    2022

    The science (and art) of facial reconstruction

    Enzian Theater, Maitland, FL

    2024

    Face on or off?

    Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre, Moscow, ID