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Director: |
Neill Blomkamp |
Writer: |
Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell |
Starring: |
Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, Nathalie Boltt, Sylvaine Strike |
Released: |
August 13, 2009 |
Rating: |
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Runtime: |
112 minutes
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Story: |
28 years ago, aliens made first contact with Earth. Humans waited for
the hostile attack, or the giant advances in technology. Neither
came. Instead, the aliens were refugees, the last survivors of
their home world. The creatures were set up in a makeshift home
in South Africa's "District 9" as the world's nations argued
over what to do with them.
Now, patience over the alien situation has run out. Control over
the aliens has been contracted out to Multi-National United (MNU),
a private company uninterested in the aliens' welfare - they will
receive tremendous profits if they can make the aliens' awesome
weaponry work. So far, they have failed; activation of the weaponry
requires alien DNA.
The tension between the aliens and the humans comes to a head when
an MNU field operative, Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley),
contracts a mysterious virus that begins changing his DNA. Wikus
quickly becomes the most hunted man in the world, as well as the
most valuable - he is the key to unlocking the secrets of alien
technology. Ostracized and friendless, there is only one place
left for him to hide: "District 9."
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Cast: |
Sharlto Copley
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Wikus Van De Merwe |
Jason Cope
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Grey Bradnam - UKNR Chief Correspondent |
Nathalie Boltt
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Sarah Livingstone - Sociologist |
Sylvaine Strike
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Dr Katrina McKenzie |
Elizabeth Mkandawie
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Interviewee |
John Sumner
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Les Feldman - MIL Engineer |
William Allen Young
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Dirk Michaels |
Greg Melvill-Smith
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Interviewer |
Nick Blake
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Francois Moraneu - CIV Engineer Team |
Morena Busa Sesatsa
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Interviewee |
Themba Nkosi
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Interviewee |
Mzwandile Nqoba
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Interviewee |
Barry Strydom
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Interviewee |
Jed Brophy
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James Hope - Police Officer |
Louis Minnaar
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Piet Smit |
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