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Genres:
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Horror /
Sci-Fi /
Thriller
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Director:
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Oliver Hirschbiegel
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Actors:
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Joanna Merlin,
Alexis Raben,
Jackson Bond,
Susan Floyd,
Stephanie Berry,
Eric Benjamin,
Nicole Kidman,
Daniel Craig,
Jeremy Northam,
Jeffrey Wright,
Veronica Cartwright,
Josef Sommer,
Celia Weston,
Roger Rees,
Adam LeFevre
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Duration:
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99 min.
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Rating:
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(6/10)114
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Plot Summary:
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Fitted Dr. Carol Bennell, a psychiatrist, the original sign that something is wrong comes from the patient who has been seeing her for four years. "My husband is not my husband," she says. Carol prescribes an anti-psychotic, but she'll straight away learn the maid's statement was perfectly ratiocinative. After Carol drops inaccurate her son to stay his author, the thought occurs to her: "My ex-budget is not my ex-quiet." More and more, those around her are behaving oddly. They're numbing, emotionless. For the moment, her love story with Ben Driscoll, a research scientist, reaps unexpected ben... efits. She asks him to examine a unnatural substance she initiate in the neighbors' Halloween confectionery. What looks like a feeble slice of human proves not to be some prank, but an outlandish substance that command be the key to learning why everywhere on Globe people are proper what they are not.
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Invasion, The
Scott BowlesAlien zombies shouldn't proselytize. They should eat your brains. Hunt you down. Or, in the case of The Invasion, vomit in your mouth. Unfortunately for Invasion, the filmmakers and their body-snatching villains also seem bent on sermonizing about everything from the war in Iraq to the state of the pharmaceutical industry. It's a shame the aliens are so preachy, because this remake of the 1956 and 1978 versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers features a top-notch cast in Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig and moments of unnerving terror. The film doesn't waste much time with backstory: It opens with a space shuttle explosion that spreads a swath of debris from Texas to Washington, D.C. Before long, people aren't acting like themselves. T...
Invasion, The
Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig star in this version of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers from the director of Downfall
The Invasion endured a notoriously troubled production, it received a scathing response from critics in the US, and in the UK there was not a sniff of a press preview - always an indication a studio isn't happy with a film.
Surprisingly, it's an okay piece of Hollywood entertainment - until you reach the finale and the film makes that blunder most famously exemplified by the Hollywood remake of The Vanishing. Yes, The Invasion gives Invasion Of The Body Snatchers a happy ending.
Jack Finney's 1955 novel had a happy ending, and Don Siegel's 1956 Cold War version carried one because the studio forced ...
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