Aliens

United Kingdom and United States of America, 1986

Film
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When Ripley’s lifepod is found by a salvage crew over 50 years later, she finds that terra-formers are on the very planet they found the alien species. When the company sends a family of colonists out to investigate her story—all contact is lost with the planet and colonists. They enlist Ripley and the colonial marines to return and search for answers.

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Credits

director

James Cameron

costume design

Emma Porteous

producer

Gale Anne Hurd

production company

20th Century Fox

Brandywine Productions

SLM Production Group

production design

Peter Lamont

screenplay

James Cameron

story

David Giler

James Cameron

Walter Hill

Duration

02:17:00

Production dates
1986

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

tmdb-movie-679

Language

English

Subject categories

Action

Science Fiction

Thriller

TMDB-Movie

679

Wikidata

Q104814

Collected

167 times

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