Mars Attacks

Mars Attacks

Theatrical - Wide 1996-12-13

Cast Jack Nicholson Glenn Close Annette Bening Pierce Brosnan Danny DeVito
Directed by Tim Burton
Written by Jonathan Gems

Box Office Gross: $101,371,017

Running Time: 106 minutes

Language: English

Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Tim Burton Productions

Genres: Comedy Fantasy

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A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world’s major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as they claim, “come in peace.” U.S. President James Dale receives assurance from science professor Donald Kessler that the... See more Martians’ mission is a friendly one. But when a peaceful exchange ends in the total annihilation of the U.S. Congress, military men call for a full-scale nuclear retaliation.

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