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Release Date • USA: Jun 8, 2001 • UK: 22 Jun 2001 DVD Release Date • R1: May 27, 2003 • R2: 10 Jan 2005
Budget $80,000,000
Official Website:
Evolution Website
MPAA Rating Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, and for sci-fi action.
Running Time 1 hour, 41 minutes
Country USA
Studio DreamWorks, Montecito Picture Company
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Other Titles • Evolution
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Comedy, Aliens, Suspense, Monsters, Courtroom, Mutants, Military, Bugs
Tagline: Have a nice end of the world.
Plot: Director Ivan Reitman (GHOSTBUSTERS, STRIPES, DAVE) turns from ghosts to aliens in this comedy starring David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, and Julianne Moore. When a meteor crashes into the Arizona desert, local community college professors Ira Kane (Duchovny) and Harry Block (Jones) are shocked to discover that it has introduced rapidly evolving aliens to Earth. Although the professors try to keep their discovery a secret, the U.S. military takes over the investigation, sealing off the fantastic creatures and the environment that the aliens have established. But when aliens start popping up on nearby golf courses and in the local mall, it's up to Kane and Block to save the world. With a little help from Allison Reed (Julianne Moore), a clumsy scientist with the Center for Disease Control, and Wayne Green (Seann William Scott), a dim-witted country club pool manager and fireman-wannabe, the two professors devise a plan using an unlikely weapon to kill the alien population before it wipes out the human race. Fittingly, former Ghostbuster Dan Aykroyd appears as the governor of
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...gets by thanks to a dopey execution, decent effects and a cast that is fairly fun to watch. ... Not nearly as good as Ghostbusters; but really why should we compare the two?  -- (TheVideoGraveYard.com)
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Ivan Reitman
Ghost Busters, Ghostbusters II, Kindergarten Cop |
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 | Ted Levine
The Silence of the Lambs, Heat, The Fast and the Furious |
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 | Dan Aykroyd
Pearl Harbor, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Ghost Busters |
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