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Release Date: May 25, 1979 (Rerelease: October 31, 2003 - titled Alien: The
Director's Cut)

Studio: 20th Century Fox

Director: Ridley Scott

Screenwriter: Dan O'Bannon (story), Ronald Shusett

Starring: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Harry Dean
Stanton, Veronica Cartwright, Yaphet Kotto, Bolaji Badejo, Helen Horton (voice)

Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

MPAA Rating: R

Official Website: alien-movies.com/html/alien/alien_frames.html

Plot Summary: In deep space, the crew of the commercial starship Nostromo
is awakened from their cryo-sleep capsules halfway through their journey home
to investigate a distress call from an alien vessel. After landing on a barren
planet, Warrant Officer Ripley works to decipher the transmission and
discovers that the signal is actually a warning, not an SOS. But it is too late to
turn back as three members of the crew have already left to investigate the
derelict ship. The terror begins when Kane encounters a nest of eggs inside the
alien ship. An organism from inside an egg leaps out and attaches itself to his
face, causing him to fall into a coma. Because of the facehugger's awesome
defenses, the crew of the Nostromo cannot remove it without also killing Kane.
As the crew searches for a way to save Kane, the facehugger dies and Kane
wakes up, feeling fine. He is brought out of isolation and the crew soon makes
another horrifying discovery - the lifeform they've found breeds within a human
host. The young alien that began its life inside of Kane escapes the astonished
crew and hides in the Nostromo where it continues to develop. As the crew
attempts to hunt it down, it in turn hunts them. While searching for a safe
escape, Ripley discovers the Company's secret plans to bring the alien to Earth
and that Ash, the Nostromo's Science Officer, is willing to kill his fellow
crewmates to achieve this goal. Warrant Officer Ripley ultimately finds that the
alien must be destroyed, not only to save herself and her crew, but all of
mankind. She sets the Nostromo to self-destruct and prepares to escape in a
shuttle, leading to the final explosive battle for survival.