Watch out! They get you while you're sleeping!
Matthew Bennell notices that several of his friends are complaining that their close relatives are in some way different. When questioned later they themselves seem changed, as they deny everything or make lame excuses. As the invaders increase in number they become more open and Bennell, who has by now witnessed an attempted 'replacement', realises that he and his friends must escape or suffer the same fate.
Director
Philip Kaufman
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Screenplay
W.D. Richter
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Release date
December 20, 1978
Country
United States of America
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Top billed cast
Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright
Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright, Art Hindle, Lelia Goldoni, Kevin McCarthy, Don Siegel, Tom Luddy, Stan Ritchie, David Fisher, Tom Dahlgren, Garry Goodrow, Jerry Walter, Maurice Argent, Sam Conti, Wood Moy, R. Wong, Rose Kaufman, Joe Bellan, Sam Hiona, Lee McVeigh, Al Nalbandian, Lee Mines, Robert Duvall, Michael Chapman, Philip Kaufman, Al Perez, Jeff Scheftel, Kevin Harris
Production companies
United Artists
Keywords
san francisco, california, based on novel or book, 1970s, psychoanalysis, remake, alien, apocalypse, alien invasion, alien infection, epidemic, biologist, doppelgänger
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