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Writers:
Jim Henshaw (writer)
Peter Mohan (writer)
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Release Date:
25 February 1999 (USA) more
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Plot:
Five astronauts make the first manned trip to Mars, in the second decade of the 21st century. They must... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Christine Elise ... Lia Poirier, Sagan Cocommander
Peter Outerbridge ... John Rank, Sagan Cocommander
Allison Hossack ... Andrea Singer, Mission Chemist

Michael Shanks ... Bill Malone, Mission Architect
Ron Lea ... Jason, Mission Control Weasel

Kavan Smith ... Sergei Andropov, Misson Biogeochemist

David Kaye ... Steve Yaffe
Peter Kelamis ... Robert Poirer, Lia's Husband

Julie Khaner ... Gail McConnell, Mission Control

Tammy Isbell ... Stephanie Rank, John's Ex Wife
Arlene MacPherson ... Remi

Aaron Pearl ... Robert Singer
Jonathan Barrett ... Richard Singer
Darrell Nicholson ... Andy Singer
Sophia Sweatman ... Amanda Singer
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated PG for mild sci-fi action and peril, and for some sensuality and language.
Runtime:
100 min
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Certification:
Iceland:L | Portugal:M/12 (video premiere) | USA:PG
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If you want special effects watch a Britney Spears concert, 9 January 2002
Author: (westpenn49) from United States

When you compare this movie with Mission to Mars, in which Peter Outerbridge also appears, one sees that this product isn't that bad. First of all special effects, there arent' really any and I didn't miss them, but then I don't watch movies for special effects, I watch for human interactions and story. One effect plot device did bother me, on the way to Mars the ship (an oversize space shuttle)has these gyro appendages which spin, on the way back we don't see them being deployed (the originals were jettisoned when the reached mars) and I wondered why out and not back.

The acting was better than I expected, the actors just didn't have a of story to work with and the video made for a cheap look. Despite the flaws, I liked the people (although the Russian Casanova scene was very gratuitous and it certainly was more watchable than Dr. Who. It was nice that someone gave the concept a better budget and "remade" it as Mission to Mars, but in the end this one had as much story and was a better movie because it wasn't as pretentious. Of course the latter had more special effects than a Britney spears concert . . .



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