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INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS Philip Kaufman Retrospective

Description

A variation on the Don Siegel/Jack Finney classic, this full-scale sci-fi horror fable transplants pods from small town America to San Francisco. Kaufman and writer W.D. Richter find a witty, more fantastic analogy to the McCarthy era paranoia in the blissful, selfabsorbed certitudes of the human potential movement. “For undiluted pleasure and excitement, it is the American movie of the year-a new classic ….. The best of its kind ever made,” Pauline Kael.

Details

Country: USA

Year: 1978

Director: Philip Kaufman

Producer: Robert Solo

Director of Photography: Michael Chapman

Editor: Douglas Stewart

Cast/Featuring: Donald Sutherland (Matthew Bennell), Brooke Adams (Elizabeth Driscoll), Leonard Nimoy (Dr David Kibner), Veronica Cartwright (Nancy Bellicec), Jeff Goldblum (Jack Bellicec)

Running Time (minutes): 115 min

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