Tomb Raider

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
 
Directed by Simon West
Produced by Lawrence Gordon,
Lloyd Levin
Written by Sara B. Cooper,
Mike Werb,
Patrick Massett
Starring Angelina Jolie,
Jon Voight,
Daniel Craig
Music by Graeme Revell
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date(s) June 15, 2001
Running time 100 min.
Country United States
Language English
Budget $115,000,000
Gross revenue $274,703,340
Followed by Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is a film adaptation of the popular Tomb Raider video game series featuring the character Lara Croft. Directed by Simon West, it was released during the summer of 2001. Lara in the screen role was played by Angelina Jolie.

The film opens with Lara Croft in an Egyptian tomb, she is seeking what appears to be a diamond on a display at one end of the chamber. As she approaches, however, she is suddenly attacked by a large robot. After an intense chase and battle with the robot, she manages to disable it by ripping out key motivational circuits. She then takes the diamond, which is actually a memory card labeled 'Lara's Party Mix,' and inserts it into a laptop computer inside the robot, whereupon it starts playing music. It is revealed that the scene took place in a practice arena in Lara's own home, and her assistant, Bryce, programmed the robot (nicknamed SIMON), to train and challenge her in combat.