Mars Attacks (12A)
- Run time: 1 hour 46 mins
- Genre: Comedy
- Release date: 28th February 1997
- Starring: Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening
- Directed by: Tim Burton
- Official Website: http://www.marsattacks.com
- Distributor: Warner Brothers
Plot Synopsis
Citizens of Earth face their doom with gung-ho valor and brainless abandon as little green men from outer space gleefully terrorize the planet in an all-star, cross-country sci-fi comedy from director TIM BURTON.
Playing the Earthlings under intergalactic siege is a stellar cast of dazzlers unlike any assembled on the silver screen before:
Watch! . . . JACK NICHOLSON as President of the United States James Dale, worried about the best suit to wear to greet the Martians; GLENN CLOSE as appearance-obsessive First Lady Marsha, not about to have those things in her house; and NATALIE PORTMAN as First Daughter Taffy, bored with the whole hullabaloo -- a Family that is one of the First to come unglued!
Wonder! . . . at the worthlessness of the President's closest cadre of advisors: ROD STEIGER as "blow-'em-back-to-Mars" General Decker, who never met a war he didn't like; PAUL WINFIELD as "they-come-in-peace" General Casey, who wants to drive the welcome wagon; MARTIN SHORT as the Oval Office's hormonally driven spin doctor, Press Secretary Jerry Ross; and PIERCE BROSNAN as Professor Donald Kessler, who wants to know what makes those big-brained fiends tick!
Thrill! . . . at the denizens of glittery, glitzy Las Vegas: JACK NICHOLSON (yes! again!) as real-estate slickster Art Land; ANNETTE BENING as his chakra-cleansing, 12-stepping, harmonically converging wife, Barbara; DANNY DeVITO as a foul-tempered and fouler-mouthed low-roller; JIM BROWN as ex-pro boxer Byron Williams, now a casino greeter; and legendary, ladies-love-him showman TOM JONES as legendary, ladies-love-him showman Tom Jones!
Gasp! . . . as a young couple -- SARAH JESSICA PARKER as hip go-getter fashion-newsgal Nathalie Lake and MICHAEL J. FOX as her straighter-laced boyfriend and newshound rival Jason Stone -- race to scoop the story of the millennium without mussing their hair!
Tremble! . . . in the Heartland as LUKAS HAAS as slacker stoner Richie Norris and SYLVIA SIDNEY as his hazy-headed grandma make up a cross-generational vigilante team to battle the Martian madness!
Shriek! . . . as, back in the Capitol City, PAM GRIER takes no guff -- from her sons or from any E.T., either -- as Louise Williams, and LISA MARIE woos her way into the White House as the alluring, irresistible Martian Girl!