Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 film)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1978 science fiction horror film directed by Philip Kaufman, and starring Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Veronica Cartwright, Jeff Goldblum and Leonard Nimoy. Released on December 20, 1978, it is a remake of the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers, which is based on the novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney. The plot involves a San Francisco health inspector and his colleague who discover humans are being replaced by duplicate aliens who appear to be perfect copies of the persons replaced, but devoid of any human emotion.
In deep space, a race of gelatinous creatures abandon their dying world. Pushed through space by the solar wind, they make their way to Earth and land in San Francisco. Some fall on plant leaves, assimilating them and forming small pods with pink flowers. Elizabeth Driscoll Brooke Adams, an employee at the San Francisco Health Department, is one of several people who bring the flowers home. The next morning, Elizabeths boyfriend, Geoffrey Howell, DDS Art Hindle, suddenly becomes distant, and she senses that something is wrong. Her colleague, health inspector Matthew Bennell Donald Sutherland, suggests that she see his friend, psychiatrist Dr. David Kibner Leonard Nimoy. While driving to a book party Kibner is attending, they are accosted by a hysterical man Kevin McCarthy, in a direct homage to the original film. The man runs off, and is soon seen dead, surrounded by a crowd of emotionless onlookers. At the party, Matthew calls the police about the incident, and finds them strangely indifferent. An agitated party attendee starts declaring that her husband is not her real husband. Kibner works to reconcile them. He also suggests that Elizabeth wants to believe that Geoffrey has changed because she is looking for an excuse to get out of their relationship.Meanwhile, Matthews friend Jack Bellicec Jeff Goldblum, a struggling writer who owns a bathhouse with his wife Nancy Veronica Cartwright discovers a deformed body on one of the beds and calls Matthew to investigate. Noticing that the body which is adult sized but lacks distinguishing characteristics bears a slight resemblance to Jack, Matthew breaks into Elizabeths home and finds a semiformed double of her in the bedroom garden. He is able to get the sleeping Elizabeth to safety, but the duplicate body has disappeared by the time he returns with the police. The body at the bathhouse has also disappeared when Matthew returns there. ........
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