
89
Avg Score
Critic Scores
IMDb
8.5/10
1061640 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
93%
Tomatometer
Metacritic
89/100
Metascore
Overview
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.
Cast
Details
- Director
- Ridley Scott
- Writer
- Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett
- Released
- 22 Jun 1979
- Box office
- $84,206,106
- Awards
- Won 1 Oscar. 19 wins & 22 nominations total
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