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The Relic

ORIGINAL TITLE

The Relic

YEAR

1997

RUNNING TIME

110 min.

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COUNTRY

(New) Visual section

DIRECTOR

Peter Hyams

SCREENWRITER

Amy Holden Jones, John Raffo, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver (Novel: Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child)

COMPOSER

John Debney

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Peter Hyams

CAST

Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, Linda Hunt, James Whitmore, Clayton Rohner, Chi Muoi Lo, Thomas Ryan, Robert Lesser

STUDIO/PRODUCER

Co-production USA-UK-Germany; Cloud Nine Entertainment / Polygram Filmed Entertainment / Marubeni / Toho-Towa / Tele-München / BBC / Paramount Pictures present a Pacific Western production

GENRE

Horror. Mystery | Monsters

SYNOPSIS/PLOT

Penelope Ann Miller stars as Dr. Margo Green, an evolutionary biologist at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History who receives a shipment of artifacts from a colleague performing fieldwork in Brazil. Among the contents are leaves containing a rare fungus that, unknown to Green or anyone else, attracts the palate of a rapidly mutating, lizard-like monster called Kothoga that has stowed away on a Brazilian freighter and has found a subterranean route into the museum from Lake Michigan.

Before long, several museum employees have become decapitated snack food for the beast that prefers to dine on human hypothalamuses and pituitary glands. Despite dire warnings from the museum staff, a gruff coroner (Audra Lindley) and the investigating detective, Lt. Vincent D'Agosta (Tom Sizemore), the Windy City's oblivious mayor orders a black-tie museum fundraiser to proceed. During the event, the building's high-tech security system locks Green, D'Agosta, the mayor, and many chi-chi party guests in with the hungry animal, forcing everyone to attempt an escape through an underground waterway with which Kothoga is all too familiar.

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