Alien (Director’s Cut)
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Celebrate Alien Day at The Colonial. Due to popular demand, our screening has moved to T1 and will now start at 7:00 PM.
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“Miss Weaver, a New York actress making her film debut, makes the most of the opportunity without overdoing it. She suggests toughness and fear in equal measure.” – Philadelphia Inquirer
“Alien will scare the peanuts right out of your M&M’s. It was about time someone made a science-fiction thriller that thrills… and just boils everything down to the pure, ravishingly vulgar essence of fright.” – Newsweek
On their voyage home to Earth, the crew of the deepspace tug Nostromo are awakened from stasis when their ship’s computer detects what is believed to be an alien distress signal coming from a nearby planet. While investigating the desolate landscape, one of the crew is attacked by an alien creature that latches to his face and is rushed back to the Nostromo to receive medical treatment. Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), the ship’s warrant officer, advises that her injured colleague (John Hurt) can’t be brought aboard due to quarantine regulations – but her orders are ignored, inadvertently bringing the Nostromo under threat from a mysterious extraterrestrial life form with violent and lethal survival instincts.
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- Genre Sci-Fi
- Director Ridley Scott
- Released 1979
- Runtime 1h 57m
- Rated R
- Studio Fox/ Disney
- CountryUnited States
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