Rating: R
Genre: Science Fiction
Theatrical Release: 05/25/1979(USA),
Release Date: 06/01/1999
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1/DDS
Run Time: 116 Minutes
Flags: Graphic Violence, Not For Children, Gore, Sci-Fi Violence
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox

"In space, no one can hear you scream." A close encounter of the third kind becomes a Jaws-style nightmare when an alien invades a spacecraft in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic. On the way home from a mission for the Company, the Nostromo's crew is woken up from hibernation by the ship's Mother computer to answer a distress signal from a nearby planet. Capt. Dallas' (Tom Skerritt) rescue team discovers a bizarre pod field, but things get even stranger when a face-hugging creature bursts out of a pod and attaches itself to Kane (John Hurt). Over the objections of Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), science officer Ash (Ian Holm) lets Kane back on the ship. The acid-blooded incubus detaches itself from an apparently recovered Kane, but an alien erupts from Kane's stomach and escapes. The alien starts stalking the humans, pitting Dallas and his crew (and cat) against a malevolent killing machine that also has a protector in the nefarious Company.

~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Tom Skerritt - Dallas
Sigourney Weaver - Ellen Ripley
Yaphet Kotto - Parker
Veronica Cartwright - Lambert
Harry Dean Stanton - Brett
John Hurt - Kane
Ian Holm - Ash

Production:
Ridley Scott - Director
Gordon Carroll David Giler Walter Hill - Producer
Jerry Goldsmith - Composer
Terry Rawlings Peter Weatherly - Editor
Dan O'Bannon - Screen Writer
Ian Whittaker - Set Designer
Leslie Dilley - Art Director
Roger Christian - Art Director
Adrian Biddle - Camera Operator
Mary Goldberg - Casting
Mary Selway - Casting
Derek Vanlint - Cinematographer
Lionel Newman - Conductor
John Mollo - Costume Designer
Roger Dicken - Costume Designer
H.R. Giger - Creature Design
Ronald Shusett - Executive Producer
Paul Ibbetson - First Assistant Director
Martin Bower - Model Effects Supervisor
Lionel Newman - Musical Direction/Supervision
Anton Furst - Production Designer
Leslie Dilley - Production Designer
Michael Seymour - Production Designer
Dan O'Bannon - Screen Story
Ronald Shusett - Screen Story
Bernard Lodge - Special Effects
Brian Johnson - Special Effects
Carlo Rambaldi - Special Effects
Nick Allder - Special Effects
Howard Hanson - Featured Music

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