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The Andromeda Strain
The film is about a US research satellite carrying a deadly extraterrestrial microscopic organism that crashes into a small town in Arizona. After the townspeople are wiped out by the contagion, a team of scientists bands together to eliminate the virus before it spreads nationwide.
19 January 1919, London, England, UK
April 23, 1934 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA
16 June 1929, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
25 July 1933, Du Quoin, Illinois, USA
7 September 1926, Buffalo, New York, USA
14 July 1917, Fargo, North Dakota, USA
19 May 1922, Akron, Ohio, USA
31 December 1930, Birmingham, England, UK
July 14, 1917 in Fargo, North Dakota, USA
8 October 1930, Evanston, Illinois, USA
August 28, 2009
DisquietingNovember 05, 2008
An intriguing, suspenseful story is somewhat hampered by a dull cast. The last sequence will have you on the edge of your seat.February 09, 2006
Wise does rather plod through the plot.November 05, 2008
Director Wise takes few liberties with Michael Crichton's breakthrough best-seller and the film is all the stronger for it.October 23, 2004
Splendid entertainment that will get you worried about whether they'll be able to contain that strange blob of alien green crystal.November 05, 2008
Nelson Gidding's adaptation of the Michael Crichton novel is too literal and talky.May 04, 2011
Robert Wise's version of Chrihton's popular novel is a decent (but no more) film, with some good art design.May 09, 2005
Nothing very exciting goes on.November 15, 2008
Uma ficção-científica inteligente, para adultos, que usa a "ficção" como trampolim para sua fascinante "ciência". E a direção de arte é um espetáculo à parte, mesmo que datada.September 18, 2005
Wise and screenwriter Nelson Gidding focus on the details and the science of the story, giving it a natural suspense that nearly holds up for the entire 131 minutes.November 05, 2008
Robert Wise brings his Academy Award-winning sobriety and meticulousness to a pulp tale that cries out for the slapdash vigor of a Roger Corman.November 05, 2008
Wise (and Crichton) concoct the most absorbing, riveting take on science fiction tempered with science fact.