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Writers (WGA):
J.S. Cardone (story) and
Boaz Davidson (story) ...
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Tagline:
At The Ends Of The Earth, It's The End Of The World... more
Plot:
An alien black box is found in the South Pole, where a government agency is conducting botanical experiments. full summary | add synopsis
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Director Marcus Nispel Takes Over ‘Conan’ Reboot
(From The Flickcast. 12 June 2009, 7:30 AM, PDT)
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Science fiction by the numbers. more (43 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| James Spader | ... | Julian Rome | |
| Janine Eser | ... | Dr. Kate Brecher | |
| John Lynch | ... | Dr. Michael Straub | |
| Nikolai Binev | ... | Dr. Alexi Gierach | |
| Leslie Stefanson | ... | Nyla Olson | |
| Aimee Graham | ... | Shelly Klein | |
| Stuart Charno | ... | Abell (as Stu Charno) | |
| Carl Lewis | ... | Grisham | |
| Svetla Vasileva | ... | Dacia | |
| Anthony Crivello | ... | Pilot | |
| Kaloian Vodenicharov | ... | Co-Pilot (as Kaloyan Vodenicharov) | |
| George Stanchev | ... | Airman | |
| Rufus Dorsey | ... | Navigator | |
| Roy Dotrice | ... | Dr. John Bachman | |
| Woody Schultz | ... | Sam |
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The Beacon (USA) (working title)
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Rated R for language and some violence.
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Runtime:
92 min
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Singapore:NC-16 | USA:R (certificate #38960) | Finland:K-15 | Netherlands:12 | USA:R | Argentina:13 | Denmark:11 | New Zealand:M | Spain:13 | Australia:M | Germany:12 | Iceland:16
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The black & white footage shown to Julian Rome is footage from The Thing from Another World (1951). This footage was also used in the remake of The Thing from Another World, John Carpenter's The Thing (1982), and it is the film that R.J. MacReady finds in the destroyed Norwegian camp. more
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Factual errors: English subtitling of Russian dialogue is wrong. 3-5-0 (tri-pjat-null) degrees is written as 2-5-0. more
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References E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) more
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James Spader plays a cryptologist who is summoned to the Antarctic where a research station has uncovered something in the ice shelf that is emitting radio signals in a non-random pattern. As the ice melts around it, the scientists discover that it is some sort of alien pod. Too late, Spader decyphers the message which is telling them not to disturb the vessel.
This film takes a little bit from several other science fiction movies and blends the parts into a pretty weak story. There's nothing new here, but at least the filmmakers realize that and set about with providing simple entertainment.
You could do a lot worse at the video store.