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Writers (WGA):
Debra Ricci (written by) &
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Genre:
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Plot:
Young people exploring a cave in Hawaii fall into a hole, wind up in the lost city of Atlantis. | add synopsis
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The video rental probably cost more than the film production. (minor spoilers) more (7 total)

Cast

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Emo Philips ... Nimrod

Paul Carafotes ... Richard
Jaclyn Bernstein ... Sara

Kathy Ireland ... Wanda Saknussemm
Janet Du Plessis ... Gen. Rykov / Shank
Nicola Cowper ... Crystina
Lochner De Kock ... Professor Galba
Ilan Mitchell-Smith ... Bryan
Albert Maritz ... Mago / Kepple / Lab Assistant

Jeff Celentano ... Tola (as Jeff Weston)

Simon Poland ... Roderman / Hairdresser

Jeremy Crutchley ... Billy Foul
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Janine Bonollo ... Troll Girl
Myra Chasen ... Mrs. Wellington
Beany Chopper ... Bernard
Erika Delport ... Wanda No. One
Marius Du Plooy ... William Wellington
James Lithgow ... Donaldson
Lynda Marshall ... Miss Ferry
Solly Ndloyu ... Soldier
Sonto Ndloyu ... Soldier
Sydney Radebe ... Soldier
Russel Savadier ... Loki / Reporter

Peter Henry Schroeder ... Father

Charlotte Stewart ... Mother
Leisl van den Bergh ... Burrows
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Runtime:
Brazil:100 min | Belgium:78 min (video version)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
Iceland:L | USA:PG
Company:
Golan-Globus Productions more

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According to director Rusty Lemorande, only the first eight minutes of this film were directed by him. The rest of it is the sequel to the Kathy Ireland vehicle Alien from L.A. (1988) directed by Albert Pyun, which was tacked on by the producers and renamed "Journey to the Center of the Earth" in order to fulfill contracts with foreign distributors. more
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The video rental probably cost more than the film production. (minor spoilers), 7 March 2006
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Author: Pepper Anne from Orlando, Florida

Journey to the Center of the Earth is the story of some tourists of Hawaii, three of them siblings, and one of them a young British nanny babysitting a dog. When the siblings accidentally drive off in their jeep with the basket of dog biscuits, the nanny follows them (it might've just been safer to purchase more) all the way to the cave the siblings intended to explore (I guess). For some reason, they actually go in the cave and then, when the place starts caving in, they try to get out to no avail, except for the six-year-old sister who they tell to go get help. Meanwhile, the more they move around in the cave, the more they continue to plummet further and further towards the earths cavernous core. And behold, it is here where they find the City of Atlantis and its bizarre alien habitants who are living under the oppressive rule of one alien that doesn't want them asking to many questions about the worlds external to their own.

I see that Rusty Lemorande, the named director of the film has provided comments on this film, in which he explains that part of latter half of this film is actually the sequel to Alien in L.A. Well, whatever it was, it was an amazingly cheap movie that I would rank only slightly higher than City Limits (a 1988 sci-fi film also made on a non-existent budget) because at the least ending of this dreadful piece of mostly incoherent film-making that cuts corners where it can aims for some humor and amusement in the last 20 minutes when we finally see what life is like in the alien world at the center of the Earth. I also give it a two star rating rather than one because it was at times, funny, even if only in its subtleties. For example, the aliens asks the British girl if she's an alien and she explains that the Ministry should be sending her work visa shortly. Or when the alien girl finds Bryan and explains that he is in the city of Altantis and he mistakes this for Atlantic City, New Jersey. Little things like that make the idiocy of the first hour or so tolerable. Imagine how great the film could've been though if they had 1) actually intended to make it, and 2) actually had money to make it.

I do like how in the end, no one wonders what happened to the little sister who was sent away in the beginning to get help. She'd just be wandering around the Hawaiian caves and not too far from the erupting volcano, mind you.

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