Overview - Alien

Date of release

Genres

  • Horror
  • Science Fiction

Runtime: 117 minutes

Homepage: Alien

Budget

$11,000,000.00

Revenue

$104,931,801.00

Spoken Languages

  • English
  • Español

Production companies

  • Name: 20th Century Fox

    Production country United States of America

  • Name: Brandywine Productions

    Production country United States of America

Overview

During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.

Cast

  • Name: Tom Skerritt

    Character: Dallas

    Popularity: 1.9598

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  • Name: Sigourney Weaver

    Character: Ripley

    Popularity: 2.7018

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  • Name: Veronica Cartwright

    Character: Lambert

    Popularity: 1.4652

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  • Name: Harry Dean Stanton

    Character: Brett

    Popularity: 1.1509

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  • Name: John Hurt

    Character: Kane

    Popularity: 2.8984

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  • Name: Ian Holm

    Character: Ash

    Popularity: 0.887

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  • Name: Yaphet Kotto

    Character: Parker

    Popularity: 0.5001

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  • Name: Bolaji Badejo

    Character: Alien

    Popularity: 0.1869

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