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Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn (View All)
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Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn
Big-budget special effects, swiftly paced action, and a distinct feminist subtext from writer/director James Cameron turned what should have been a by-the-numbers sci-fi sequel into both a blockbuster and a seven-time Oscar nominee. Sigourney Weaver returns as Ellen Ripley, the last surviving crew member of a corporate spaceship destroyed after an attack by a vicious, virtually unbeatable alien life form. Adrift in space for half a century, Ripley grapples with depression until she's informed by her company's representative, Carter Burke (Paul Reiser) that the planet where her crew discovered the alien has since been settled by colonists. Contact with the colony has suddenly been lost, and a detachment of colonial marines is being sent to investigate. Invited along as an advisor, Ripley predicts disaster, and sure enough, the aliens have infested the colony, leaving a sole survivor, the young girl Newt (Carrie Henn). With the soldiers picked off one by one, a final all-female showdown brews between the alien queen and Ripley, who's become a surrogate mother to Newt. Several future stars made early career appearances in Aliens (1986), including Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, and Reiser. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
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US Release Date
7/18/86
MPAA Rating
Rated R
Running Time
137 mins.
Locations
- London, England, United Kingdom
- Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
Language
- English
Box Office Total
$77,632,096
Awards
- Nominated for a Makeup Award award at the 1986 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Sound award at the 1986 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama award at the 1986 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Production Design award at the 1986 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Actress award at the 1986 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Editing award at the 1986 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Art Direction award at the 1986 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Visual Effects Award award at the 1986 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Score award at the 1986 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Visual Effects award at the 1986 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Sound Award award at the 1986 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Winner of the Best Sound Effects award at the 1986 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
Distributor
- 20th Century Fox
- 20th Century Fox Distribution
- CBS Video
