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Overview

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5.7/10   13,644 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Donald A. Wollheim (short story "Mimic")
Matthew Robbins (screen story) ...
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Release Date:
22 August 1997 (USA) more
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Tagline:
For thousands of years, man has been evolution's greatest creation... until now. more
Plot:
Three years ago entomologist Dr. Susan Tyler genetically created an insect to kill cockroaches carrying a virulent disease, now the insects are out to destroy their only predator, mankind! full summary | add synopsis
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3 wins & 6 nominations more
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Good for this type of movie more (123 total)

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Also Known As:
Judus (USA) (working title)
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Rated R for terror/violence and language.
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105 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Originally planned as a single 30-min. short as part of a feature of sci-fi/horror/comedy shorts by Miramax. The other segments also grew into the features Impostor (2001) and Alien Love Triangle (2002). more
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Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Susan (Mira Sorvino) takes her pregnancy test, she and Peter (Jeremy Northam) move around and shake the test. This often results in false readings. more
Quotes:
[on insect's inner motivation]
Dr. Gates: Can I eat it or will it eat me?
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References Twelve Monkeys (1995) more
Soundtrack:
Give Me Central 209 more

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Good for this type of movie, 25 February 1999
9/10
Author: Sean Gallagher (naes@cgocable.net) from Oakville, Ont. Canada

I must confess I'm not a big fan of these type of movies, but since Mira Sorvino was in it, and John Sayles and Steven Soderburgh both worked on the script, I thought I'd give it a shot. This was actually pretty good, because they paid attention to the science without becoming clinical about it, and it was more interesting and credible than I expected (then again, science was never my subject). The second half of the movie is pretty much a chase movie, but that's well done for the most part, though Charles S. Dutton wears out his welcome pretty quickly in a thankless role. Sorvino is as good as I expected.

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