Rating: PG13
Genre: Science Fiction
Release Date: 10/06/1998
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English
Sound: 5.1/2
Run Time: 130 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Suitable for Teens
Distributor/Studio: New Line Home Video

This $90 million science fiction adventure is adapted from the television series, created by Irwin Allen, which originally ran on CBS from 1965 to 1968. The original series employed a Swiss Family Robinson in outer space premise; sent to colonize a planet in the Alpha Centauri system, the Robinson family was thrown off course by a stowaway and was left wandering from planet to planet (and changing along the way from a black-and-white series to a color series). The 1998 remake is set in the year 2058, when the United Global Space Force sends Professor John Robinson (William Hurt) and family -- wife Maureen (Mimi Rogers), daughter Judy (Heather Graham), teen Penny (Lacey Chabert), and 10-year-old Will (Jack Johnson) -- on a promotional space jaunt to herald the "offshore" future for the human race (now saddled with eco problems on Earth). Major Don West (Matt LeBlanc), more accustomed to fighting menacing Global Sedition forces, is reluctant to sign on as the Jupiter II pilot but quickly changes his mind after he gets a good look at Judy in her fetish-fashioned space togs. Space spy Dr. Smith (Gary Oldman), hired to sabotage the mission, programs in problems but winds up aboard the craft unconscious. Once awake, he summons the Robinsons from suspended animation, and they save the ship just in time, passing through hyperspace to arrive near an Earth ship where they encounter space-pet Blawp and hordes of teethy spiders. A spider bite makes the villainous Smith mutate, one of some 750 special effects, from animatronics (Jim Henson Creature Shop) to CGI, and other adventures await throughout the galaxy. Cameos include actors from the original series, including June Lockhart and Robot Voice Dick Tufeld. In a curious coincidence, the TV series took place in the future of 1997, the year this movie was produced.

~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
William Hurt - John Robinson
Mimi Rogers - Maureen Robinson
Heather Graham - Judy Robinson
Lacey Chabert - Penny Robinson
Jack Johnson - Will Robinson
Gary Oldman - Dr. Zachary Smith
Matt LeBlanc - Don West
Jared Harris - Older Will
Mark Goddard - General
Lennie James - Jeb Walker
Marta Kristen - Reporter No. 1
June Lockhart - Principal
Edward Fox - Business Man
Adam Sims - Lab Technician
Angela Cartwright - Reporter No. 2
Dick Tufeld - Robot

Production:
Stephen Hopkins - Director
Stephen Hopkins Akiva Goldsman Carla Fry Mark W. Koch - Producer
Tim Hampton Kris Wiseman - Co Producer
Bruce Broughton - Composer
Ray Lovejoy - Editor
Akiva Goldsman - Screen Writer
Allison Cowitt - Casting
Mary Selway - Casting
Mike Fenton - Casting
Peter Levy - Cinematographer
Gilly Hebden - Costume Designer
Vin Burnham - Costume Designer
Mace Neufeld - Executive Producer
Michael De Luca - Executive Producer
Michael Ilitch - Executive Producer
Richard Saperstein - Executive Producer
Robert G. Rehme - Executive Producer
Chris Carreras - First Assistant Director
Norman Garwood - Production Designer
John Stephenson - Second Unit Director
Simon Kaye - Sound/Sound Designer
Angus Bickerton - Special Effects Supervisor
Keith Pain - Supervising Art Director
Robert Bell - Costume Designer

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