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Release Date:
19 June 1998 (USA)
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Tagline:
Fight the Future more
Plot:
Mulder and Scully must fight the government in a conspiracy and find the truth about an alien colonization of Earth. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
3 wins
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7 nominations
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NewsDesk:
(11 articles)
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| David Duchovny | ... | Special Agent Fox Mulder | |
| Gillian Anderson | ... | Special Agent Dana Scully | |
| John Neville | ... | The Well-Manicured Man | |
| William B. Davis | ... | Cigarette Smoking Man / CGB Spender | |
| Martin Landau | ... | Alvin Kurtzweil, MD | |
| Mitch Pileggi | ... | Assistant Director Walter Skinner | |
| Jeffrey DeMunn | ... | Ben Bronschweig, M.D. (as Jeffrey De Munn) | |
| Blythe Danner | ... | Jana Cassidy | |
| Terry O'Quinn | ... | Darius Michaud | |
| Armin Mueller-Stahl | ... | Conrad Strughold | |
| Lucas Black | ... | Stevie | |
| Christopher Fennell | ... | Boy #2 (as Chris Fennell) | |
| Cody Newton | ... | Boy #3 | |
| Blake Stokes | ... | Boy #4 | |
| Dean Haglund | ... | Richard 'Ringo' Langly |
Additional Details
Also Known As:
Aux frontières du réel (Canada: French title)
Blackwood (USA) (working title)
Fight the Future (USA) (working title)
The X Files Movie (Australia)
The X Files: Fight the Future (USA) (working title)
The X-Files (USA) (closing credits title)
X-Files: Blackwood (USA) (working title)
X-Files: The Movie (USA) (working title)
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Blackwood (USA) (working title)
Fight the Future (USA) (working title)
The X Files Movie (Australia)
The X Files: Fight the Future (USA) (working title)
The X-Files (USA) (closing credits title)
X-Files: Blackwood (USA) (working title)
X-Files: The Movie (USA) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for some intense violence and gore.
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Runtime:
121 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:12 (original rating) |
Iceland:16 (video rating) |
South Korea:12 |
New Zealand:M |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:M |
Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
Canada:14A (British Columbia) |
Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) |
Canada:AA (Ontario) |
Canada:PA (Manitoba) |
Canada:PG (Alberta) |
Chile:14 |
Finland:K-16 |
France:U |
Germany:12 (w) |
Hong Kong:IIA |
Netherlands:12 |
Norway:15 |
Peru:14 |
Poland:15 |
Portugal:M/12 |
Singapore:PG |
Spain:T |
Sweden:11 |
UK:15 |
USA:PG-13
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Fun Stuff
Trivia:
Watch the scene where the agent's car (chasing the white trucks) is tracked by a helicopter shot driving bottom right to top left diagonally across the screen. This scene cross-fades into the end of the drive at night, with the car driving top right to bottom left diagonally. The cross fade between the two shots creates a huge "X" on screen for a moment or two.
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Goofs:
Factual errors: The movie takes place in July but during the sequence in Antarctica the Sun is up (fairly high). During July, the Sun never rises in Antartica (at least not at the coordinates given by the Well Manicured Man).
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Quotes:
Mulder:
How many times have we been here before, Scully? Right here. So close to the truth and now with what we've seen and what we know to be right back at the beginning with nothing.
Scully: This is different, Mulder.
Mulder: No it isn't! You were right to want to quit! You were right to want to leave me! You should get as far away from me as you can! I'm not gonna watch you die, Scully, because of some hallow personal cause of mine. Go be a doctor. Go be a doctor while you still can.
Scully: I can't. I won't. Mulder, I'll be a doctor, but my work is here with you now. That virus that I was exposed to, it has a cure. You held it in your hand. How many other lives can we save?
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Scully: This is different, Mulder.
Mulder: No it isn't! You were right to want to quit! You were right to want to leave me! You should get as far away from me as you can! I'm not gonna watch you die, Scully, because of some hallow personal cause of mine. Go be a doctor. Go be a doctor while you still can.
Scully: I can't. I won't. Mulder, I'll be a doctor, but my work is here with you now. That virus that I was exposed to, it has a cure. You held it in your hand. How many other lives can we save?
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Soundtrack:
Hunter
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Well-paced and well-crafted, "The X-Files" is a surprisingly good movie that does not try to get cute and go away from the things that made the series such a national phenomenon. David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson seem out of place working with bomb squads and doing other mundane duties after their department is shut down by the government. However the two feel that something really major is up which involves alien colonization on Earth and a vast government cover-up that goes through the highest places in the U.S. political realm. A good screenplay and solid direction make "The X-Files" a first-rate film from a very good cinematic year. 4 stars out of 5.