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Tom Skerritt Sigourney Weaver Veronica Cartwright Harry Dean Stanton John Hurt Ian Holm Yaphet Kotto Bolaji Badejo Helen Horton |
Dallas Ripley Lambert Brett Kane Ash Parker Alien Mother |
| Directors: | Ridley Scott | |
| Certification: |
Canada:14 New Zealand:M New Zealand:R16 Canada:PG Canada:14A
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| IMDB Rating: | 8.40 out of 10 (73527 votes) | |
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1: Just one can kill seven. 2: In space no one can hear you scream. 3: It's Alien, the 8th passenger. 4: The scariest movie ever made... just got scarier. (UK 2003 re-release) 5: A word of warning... 6: In space no one can hear you scream... This Halloween in theatres, everyone will hear you scream (Re-Release) |
| Plot Summary | While returning from a deep-space mission, the crew of the commercial spaceship Nostromo is awakened by a supposed SOS call from a system they are passing through. Descending to the planet's surface, they discover a strange derelict spaceship - the apparent source of the transmission - and one of the crew descends into the hold. What he finds are thousands of strange alien eggs. While examining one of the eggs, it hatches and the parasite inside attacks him. After returning to the Nostromo the crew takes off again to head for Earth. The alien parasite subsequently dies and all seems well again. But what no one knows is that another alien is quietly forming within its host - and when it emerges, the crew finds itself in serious trouble... |
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