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Title: The Puppet Masters (1994)
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| Donald Sutherland | ... | Andrew Nivens | |
| Eric Thal | ... | Sam Nivens | |
| Julie Warner | ... | Mary Sefton | |
| Keith David | ... | Alex Holland | |
| Will Patton | ... | Dr. Graves | |
| Richard Belzer | ... | Jarvis | |
| Tom Mason | ... | President Douglas | |
| Yaphet Kotto | ... | Ressler | |
| Gerry Bamman | ... | Viscott | |
| Sam Anderson | ... | Culbertson | |
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J. Patrick McCormack | ... | Gidding |
| Marshall Bell | ... | General Morgan | |
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Nicholas Cascone | ... | Greenberg |
| Bruce Jarchow | ... | Barnes | |
| Benjamin Mouton | ... | Higgins | |
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Strange aliens land in the Midwest, taking over people's minds in order to spread their dominion. Sam Nivens and Andrew Nivens, aided by Mary Sefton, are part of a government agency who must stop the the aliens before the aliens get to them... Written by Steve Fenwick <scf@w0x0f.com>
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Andrew: Why you must try for both, of course.
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In the French dubbed version Donald Sutherland's voice is dubbed by actor Jean-Pierre Cassel. See more »Goofs
When the last alien gets killed by tail rotor of the chopper near the end of the film, it's clearly visible all of the blood and guts of the alien splattered over the tail of the chopper. After the chopper's landing, it's all gone. See more »Quotes
Sam: So if the two of you are being shot at, which bullet do I take?Andrew: Why you must try for both, of course.
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21 October 1994 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Robert A. Heinlein's The Puppet Masters See more »Filming Locations:
Los Angeles Convention Center - 1201 S. Figueroa Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »Edit
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Opening Weekend USA:
$4,069,057, 23 October 1994Gross USA:
$8,647,042Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$8,647,042Company Credits
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This was a decent sci-fi flick. Good performances by Julie Warner and Eric Thal, and of course there's no role that Donald Sutherland can't pull off. Alien effects were revoltingly good. OK, it's not completely true to Heinlein's magnificent novel. Hollywood has a formula, (the happy ending, the obligatory love interest of one or more of the stars, etc.) and any deviation from it is exceedingly rare. That's why foreign films are good, because they are not bound by the formula. I've noticed that great sci-fi movies are almost always originally written for the screen, rather than adapted from books. Books are always better than movies, but science fiction seems to be particularly so.