Mars Attacks!
Mars Attacks is a 1996 American comic science fiction film directed by Tim Burton and written by Jonathan Gems. Based on the cult trading card series of the same name minus the punctuation, the film features an ensemble cast consisting of Jack Nicholson in a dual role, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Martin Short, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael J. Fox, Rod Steiger, Tom Jones, Lukas Haas, Natalie Portman, Jim Brown, Jack Black, and Sylvia Sidney. The film is a parody of science fiction B movies with elements of black comedy and political satire.
In Kentucky, a family watches an enormous herd of cattle running past their home, having caught fire, and a flying saucer leaving Earth. The ship explodes before it returns to Mars, and hundreds of other Martian ships leave Mars and head towards Earth.After they are discovered, President James Dale along with his aides Professor Donald Kessler, Press Secretary Jerry Ross, and Army Generals Decker and Casey address the United States concerning the historic event. People around the country follow the story, including news anchors in New York, developer Art Land and his wife Barbara alongside employees and guests at the Luxor Las Vegas hotel in Nevada, and the family of US Army private BillyGlenn Norris and his brother Richie in Perkinsville, Kansas. The Presidents science aides set up a first contact meeting with the Martians in Pahrump, Nevada as President Dale watches the development on TV with his wife Marsha and his daughter Taffy. ........
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