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. Frankie Muniz (born December 5, 1985, in Wood-Ridge, New Jersey) is an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award nominated American actor. ... For the album by the artist of the same name, see Hilary Duff (album). ... Angela Michelle Harmon Sehorn (born August 10, 1972) is an American fashion model and television/film actress. ... MGM logo Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or MGM, is a large media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of cinema and television programs. ... March 14 is the 73rd day of the year (74th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... July 25 is the 206th day (207th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 159 days remaining. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from... March 14 is the 73rd day of the year (74th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Frankie Muniz (born December 5, 1985, in Wood-Ridge, New Jersey) is an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award nominated American actor. ... Antarctica Oceania Africa Asia Europe North America South America Middle East Caribbean Central Asia East Asia North Asia South Asia Southeast Asia SW. Asia Australasia Melanesia Micronesia Polynesia Central America Latin America Northern America Americas C. Africa E. Africa N. Africa Southern Africa W. Africa C. Europe E. Europe N... Look up Undercover in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The CIA Seal The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an American intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ... For the album by the artist of the same name, see Hilary Duff (album). ... Angela Michelle Harmon Sehorn (born August 10, 1972) is an American fashion model and television/film actress. ... Keith David (born June 4, 1956) is an American film, television, and voice actor. ... Ian McShane (born 29 September 1942) is a Golden Globe-winning English actor. ... Arnold Vosloo (born 16 June 1962) is a South African/American actor, known for playing the title role in the 1999 film The Mummy and its sequel, The Mummy Returns. ... Harald Zwart (born July 1, 1965) is a Norwegian film director. ... One Night at McCools is a 2001 dark comedy, directed by Harald Zwart and starring Matt Dillon, Michael Douglas, Paul Reiser, John Goodman, and Liv Tyler. ... Peter Stormare as Carl Hamilton Hamilton is a Swedish action film from 1998 starring Peter Stormare, Mark Hamill and Lena Olin, directed by Harald Zwart. ...

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 NBC's Law & Order. Lizzie McGuire is a popular Disney Channel Original Series that aired on the Disney Channel from 2001 to 2004. ... For other uses, see Television (disambiguation). ... NBC (a former acronym for National Broadcasting Company) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... Law & Order is an American television police procedural and legal drama set in New York City. ...

The film is also interesting in that it showcases such cutting-edge vehicles as the Segway and SoloTrek XFV. Inventor Dean Kamen demonstrates the Segway HT at the U.S. Department of Commerce on February 14, 2002. ... The SoloTrek XFV (Exo-skeletal Flying Vehicle) is a single-person VTOL aircraft. ...

Summary

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 a scientist named Dr. Connors who ends up working for ERIS led by an evil mastermind named Brinkman and his henchmen Francois Molay. Cody does this 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 balancing 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 set him up with Natalie. Natalie finally decides to invite Cody to her 16th birthday party, where he goes undercover to her father's lab. Cody finds that Brinkman is planning to use nanobots-which can destroy any carbon or silicon-based substance-to destroy the world's defense systems so he can threaten anyone who opposes him. Since the nanobots are inactive in the cold, he plans to use ice cubes to distribute them. The CIA Seal The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an American intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ... Summer camp is a supervised program for children and teenagers conducted during the summer months in many countries. ... A nanobot is a nanotechnological robot nanomachine, also called a nanite, which is a mechanical or electromechanical device whose dimensions are measured in nanometres (millionths of a millimetre, or units of 10-9 metrer). ...

Cody soon falls in love and almost ruins the whole operation by telling Natalie everything causing the CIA to let him go. After finding out, Brinkman sends Francis and some men to kidnap Natalie and bring her into his base in the mountains. Cody is still fired from the mission because he got too close to the subject. His parents then ground him for coming home late. But Cody is set on rescuing Natalie. Cody asks his brother to make sure his parents don't find out that he is gone. 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 snowboards to the factory where Natalie is held. On the way, he gets caught in a grove of trees as CIA agent Ronica finds him using a SoloTrek XFV (see above). He convinces her that he needs to save Natalie and they go in. Cody manages to rescue Natalie but Ronica and Natalie are caught going out. Natalie is held hostage by Brinkman who threatens her father to program the nanobots to destroy the world or his daughter dies. Cody turns the tables by planting a time bomb. Startled, Ronica, Natalie and her father get away, and Connors and Ronica run to a chopper with the CIA agent piloting. Cody and Natalie, split from the others by the collapsing base, manage to barely escape and they fly home. Cody is given many awards and is reinstated into the CIA. A snowboard with boot bindings A snowboard is a board ridden in snowboarding to descend a snow-covered slope. ...

Trivia

• The main characters attend "William Donovan Preparatory School". William Joseph Donovan ran the World War II Office of Strategic Services, predecessor to the CIA.
• Hilary Duff and Frankie Muniz worked together in one episode of Lizzie McGuire
• Mike Porter worked on the script for five years before finishing it. He said "This movie will make David an action star." He wrote the role of Cody Banks to be played by David Schwimmer but the script was rewritten after Mike Porter sold it.

For other people with similar names, see Wild Bill Major General William Joseph Donovan, KBE United States Army (January 1, 1883 – February 8, 1959) was an American soldier, lawyer and intelligence officer, best remembered today as wartime head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). ... The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was a United States intelligence agency formed during World War II. It was the wartime intelligence agency and was a lineage precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency, as well as for the Special Forces and Navy Seals, who have traced their lineage back to... Lizzie McGuire is a popular Disney Channel Original Series that aired on the Disney Channel from 2001 to 2004. ... David Lawrence Schwimmer (born November 2, 1966) is an Emmy-nominated American actor and director, who gained popularity when playing Ross Geller on the American sitcom Friends. ...

Sequel

A sequel, Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London, was released the following year. A sequel is a work of fiction in literature, film, and other creative works that is produced after a completed work, and is set in the same universe but at a later time. ... Agent Cody Banks is a movie released in the U.S. on March 13, 2003 that follows the adventures of 15_year_old Cody Banks (played by Frankie Muñiz) who has to finish his chores, avoid getting grounded, and save the world by going undercover for the CIA. Hilary Duff (Natalie...

External links

• Frankie Muniz interview for Agent Cody Banks