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Overview

User Rating:
6.6/10   123,211 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Josh Friedman (screenplay) and
David Koepp (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
29 June 2005 (USA) more
Tagline:
They're already here. more
Plot:
As Earth is invaded by alien tripod fighting machines, one family fights for survival. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 12 wins & 19 nominations more
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(176 articles)
giveaway: set of 4 Sherlock Holmes books
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Giveaway: The Sherlock Holmes Collection
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Tom Cruise ... Ray Ferrier

Dakota Fanning ... Rachel Ferrier

Miranda Otto ... Mary Ann

Justin Chatwin ... Robbie

Tim Robbins ... Harlan Ogilvy

Rick Gonzalez ... Vincent

Yul Vazquez ... Julio (as Yul Vázquez)
Lenny Venito ... Manny the Mechanic
Lisa Ann Walter ... Bartender
Ann Robinson ... Grandmother

Gene Barry ... Grandfather

David Alan Basche ... Tim
Roz Abrams ... Herself
Michael Brownlee ... TV Reporter, Osaka

Camillia Sanes ... News Producer
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Out of the Night (USA) (working title)
Party in Fresno (USA) (fake working title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for frightening sequences of sci-fi violence and disturbing images.
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116 min
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When filming on a residential street in Howell, New Jersey, the actors took refuge in the garages of near-by homes for warmth. more
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Continuity: The left rear van window is missing in some freeway scenes and is later seen intact. more
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Narrator: No one would have believed in the early years of the 21st century that our world was being watched by intelligences greater than our own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns, *they* observed and studied, the way a man with a microscope might scrutinize the creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water...
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What Attracted the Birds To The Tripods?
37) Didn't they magically change clothes at the hour mark?
14) Why did the alien shields go down?
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83 out of 163 people found the following comment useful.
Unnatural Disaster, 29 June 2005
6/10
Author: ptmcq05 from United States

The first half hour it leaves hour breathless. The characters don't know what hit them, but we do. We know all about it, a world of the worlds is about to take place, with nasty creatures from outer space. This elementary rule, we, the audience are a few steps ahead of the characters on the screen. It makes our anticipation of their realization an spectacular thrill. Then, of course, it's all downhill from there. Well, not all. Tom Cruise is in it. I have to hand it to him. Looking at his name in the poster, lots of useless but unavoidable information came to mind. Katie Holmes and Brooke Shields and L Ron Hubbard, Oprah, Matt. The lot. And I'm one who doesn't watch much television, imagine someone who does! In any case, much to Tom Cruise credit, I completely forgot all that nonsense as the movie started and I was able to concentrate on the nonsense at hand. He is really good. I took him seriously. I felt for him. He's playing a loser with an empty refrigerator and I believe it. Totally. The problems in the movie are of a different kind. The same way that you can't mix Kubrick and Spielberg and A.I was a blatant example of that. In War of the Worlds we discover H G Wells and Spielberg don't go together either. Wells, H. G as well as Orson Welles played with our inner fears without computer generated images. I imagine that playing with the intellect would have been too frightening to Spielberg, Paramount, Amblin and Dreamworks. So I guess that part of the master plan was to give us something of what, they imagine, audiences the world over expects of them. But, it doesn't work like that. It should be the intellectual wallop of H G Wells or the sentimental pyrotechnics of Steven Spielberg. Together, they do not go. Okay, I've unburden myself of my thoughts, now, I recommend you to see it and make up your own mind. Within the sad desolation of the film going summer of 2005, there is enough solace within the horrors of War of the Worlds to make you feel you haven't wasted your afternoon.

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