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6.0Washington, D.C. psychologist Carol Bennell and her colleague Dr. Ben Driscoll are the only two people on Earth who are aware of an epidemic running rampant through the city. They discover an alien virus aboard a crashed space shuttle that transforms anyone who comes into contact with it into unfeeling drones while they sleep. Carol realizes her son holds the key to stopping the spread of the plague and she races to find him before it is too late.
Cast
- Nicole Kidman as Carol Bennell
- Daniel Craig as Ben Driscoll
- Jackson Bond as Oliver
- Jeremy Northam as Tucker Kaufman
- Jeffrey Wright as Dr. Stephen Galeano
- Veronica Cartwright as Wendy Lenk
Themes
- based on novel or book
- escape
- sleep
- flu
- alien
- remake
- doctor
- disease
- vaccine
- alien invasion
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Ratings
IMDb
5.9/10
86,631 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
20%
Metacritic
45/100
- Year
- 2007
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Genres
- Sci-Fi, Thriller
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Oliver Hirschbiegel
- Screenplay by
- David Kajganich
- Based on
- The Body Snatchers , 1954 stories in Collier's , by Jack Finney
- Produced by
- Joel Silver
- Starring
- Nicole Kidman Daniel Craig Jeremy Northam Jeffrey Wright
- Cinematography
- Rainer Klausmann
- Edited by
- Joel Negron, Hans Funck
- Music by
- John Ottman
- Production companies
- Village Roadshow Pictures , Silver Pictures , Vertigo Entertainment
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Release date
- August 17, 2007 ( 2007-08-17 )
- Running time
- 99 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Languages
- English, Russian
- Budget
- $65–80 million
- Box office
- $40.2 million
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Encyclopedic overview
The Invasion is a 2007 American science fiction horror film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, written by David Kajganich, and starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig. Unhappy with the original cut of the film, the studio hired The Wachowskis for additional writing and James McTeigue to re-shoot some scenes. The plot follows a psychiatrist (Kidman) in Washington, D.C. who finds those around her turning into emotionless beings shortly after a Space Shuttle crashes to Earth, bringing with it mysterious alien spores.
Development of the film began in 2004. Warner Bros. Pictures hired David Kajganich to write what was intended to be a relatively straightforward remake of the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but Kajganich amended the story to reflect contemporary times. Principal photography began in September 2005. Released on August 17, 2007, the film was a commercial failure and received primarily negative reviews from critics.
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