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The Thing

Universal Pictures | Release Date: October 14, 2011

Summary: Paleontologist Kate Lloyd has traveled to the desolate region for the expedition of her lifetime. Joining a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across an extraterrestrial ship buried in the ice, she discovers an organism that seems to have died in the crash eons ago. But it is about to wake up. When a simple experiment frees the alien from its frozen prison, Kate must join the crew's pilot, Carter, to keep it from killing them off one at a time. And in this vast, intense land, a parasite that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish. (Universal Pictures)

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Runtime:	103 min
Rating:	Rated R for strong creature violence and gore, disturbing images, and language.
Official Site:	http://www.thethingmovie.net/
Production:	Strike Entertainment
Genres:	Sci-Fi, Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Countries:	USA, Canada
Language:	English
Home Release Date:	Jan 31, 2012

Director	Credit
Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.	Director

Writer	Credit
Eric Heisserer	Writer
John W. Campbell Jr.	Writer
Ronald D. Moore	Writer

Cast	Credit
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje	Derek Jameson
Carsten Bjørnlund	Karl
Eric Christian Olsen	Adam Goodman
Henrik Hoff	Cast
Jan Gunnar Røise	Cast
Jo Adrian Haavind	Cast
Joel Edgerton	Sam Carter
Jonathan Walker	Colin
Jørgen Langhelle	Lars
Kim Bubbs	Juliette
Kristofer Hivju	Cast
Mary Elizabeth Winstead	Kate Lloyd
Stig Henrik Hoff	Cast
Trond Espen Seim	Cast
Ulrich Thomsen	Dr. Sander Halvorson

Producer	Credit
David Foster	Executive Producer
Eric Newman	Producer
J. Miles Dale	Executive Producer
Marc Abraham	Producer