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Invasion Of The Body Snatchers

1978, Movie, PG, 115 mins

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Colorful and expensive remake of the 1956 sci-fi classic, with mopey, sleepy-eyed Sutherland playing the part originated by Kevin McCarthy, a health inspector giving a hard time to San Francisco restaurant owners when he finds rat droppings in their kitchens. Instead of the original setting, a little town in California, the setting here is the sprawling city of San Francisco, now under alien attack by the mysterious pods (with Nimoy as the psychiatrist advocating the takeove... read more leave a comment
Year: 1978
Rated PG

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Cast
Donald Sutherland: Matthew Bennell
Brooke Adams: Elizabeth Driscoll
Leonard Nimoy: Dr. David Kibner
Veronica Cartwright: Nancy Bellicec
Art Hindle: Geoffrey
Lelia Goldoni: Katherine

 

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