Invasion of the Body Snatchers

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Date: January 01, 1978 to December 31, 1978
Dates Note: 1978
Country of Origin: United States
Place of Origin: United States
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Color: Color
Silent: No
Based On: The novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney
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Auteur, Author: Film & Literature
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Paranoia abounds in this remake of the 1956 sci-fi horror film, where extraterrestrial “pod people” are breeding conformity in a culture immersed in the unconventional. Philip Kaufman updated Don Siegel’s classic, itself an adaptation of Jack Finney’s novel, to an age of fern encounters and ecology—San Francisco in the mid-seventies. But blasé enlightenment is no protection against mind control. Science fiction from decades past is perhaps all too relevant today. Cloning, emotion-free artificial “intelligence,” viral propagation—it’s all here.

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    Philip Kaufman
    Role: director
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    Michael Chapman
    Role: cinematographer
    Person: 
    Donald Sutherland
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    Brooke Adams
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    Person: 
    Leonard Nimoy
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    Person: 
    Jeff Goldblum
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