| ORIGINAL TITLE |
Super 8 |
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| COUNTRY |
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| DIRECTOR |
J.J. Abrams |
| SCREENWRITER |
J.J. Abrams |
| COMPOSER |
Michael Giacchino |
| CINEMATOGRAPHER |
Larry Fong |
| CAST |
Joel Courtney, Riley Griffiths, Elle Fanning, Ryan Lee, Gabriel Basso, Zach Mills, Kyle Chandler, Ron Eldard, Noah Emmerich, David Gallagher, Glynn Turman, Amanda Michalka |
| STUDIO/PRODUCER |
Amblin Entertainment / Bad Robot / Paramount Pictures / Relativity Media |
| OFFICIAL WEB |
http://www.super8-movie.com/ |
| AWARDS |
2011: Critics Choice Awards: 4 nominations, including Best Action Movie |
| GENRE |
Sci-Fi. Adventure | Aliens. The 70s. Teen/coming-of-age |
| SYNOPSIS/PLOT |
In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town set out to make a zombie movie. While shooting their Super 8 film, Joe Lamb (Joel Courtney) witness a catastrophic train crash and, after barely escaping themselves, they soon discover that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town and local Deputy Jackson Lamb (Kyle Chandler) tries to uncover the truth—something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined. |
| PRO REVIEWS |
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"It was like seeing a lost early Spielberg classic (...) 'Super 8' is a wonderful film, nostalgia not for a time but for a style of filmmaking (...) Rating: ***1/2 (out of four)" (Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times)
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"Writer-director J.J. Abrams overloads this sci-fi adventure with so many homages to his co-producer Steven Spielberg that it plays like the elder director's greatest hits, minus his characteristic scares and sense of wonder" (Andrea Gronvall: Chicago Reader)
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"A retro monster mash with a child's heart, a prodigy's unstoppable imagination (...) This movie, a true beauty, will put a spell on you (...) Rating: *** (out of four)" (Peter Travers: Rolling Stone)
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Put "The Goonies," "E.T.," "Close Encounters" and "War of the Worlds" in that blender from "Gremlins" -- and transport the mixture back to 1979 in the "Back to the Future" DeLorean -- and you get J.J. Abrams' "Super 8 (...) Rating: *** (out of four)" (Lou Lumenick: New York Post)
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"This melding of two cinematic sensibilities, though effective at moments, is finally not as exciting or involving as it we'd like it to be (...) The problem with "Super 8" is not how much there is to complain about but how little there is to be excited about" (Kenneth Turan: Los Angeles Times)
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"Loving, playful, and spectacularly well made, Super 8 is easily the best summer movie of the year -- of many years" (Lisa Schwarzbaum: Entertainment Weekly)
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Super 8
