"Terminator 2: Judgment Day" is a 1991 science fiction action film directed by James Cameron and produced by Carolco Pictures. The movie is the second installment in the Terminator franchise and stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, and Robert Patrick. The film takes place 11 years after the events of the first movie and follows a more advanced Terminator, the T-1000, sent back in time to kill John Connor, the future leader of the human resistance.