Stargate

Kurt Russell Actor , James Spader Actor , Jaye Davidson Actor , Viveca Lindfors Actor , Alexis Cruz Actor

MPAA Rating: NR
Contains:Mild Violence,Questionable for Children,Profanity

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Stargate

UPC: 012236191551

Studio: Lions Gate

MPAA Rating: NR Contains:[Mild Violence, Questionable for Children, Profanity]

Summary: This lucrative, elephantine-budgeted sci-fi opus paved the way for director Roland Emmerich's mega-hit Independence Day (1996). The story commences in Giza, Egypt, circa 1928, where an archaeological expedition unearths an ancient ring with cryptic hieroglyphs. The film then moves to the present day, where Egyptologist Daniel Jackson (James Spader) is busily trying to convince a group of skeptics that the pyramids were not built by man, but by an extraterrestrial force. After the lecture, a military man approaches him and offers him a job translating the said ring; its inscriptions actually constitute a map to a massive stargate (or interstellar portal). The army sends over resident crackpot colonel Jack O'Neill (Kurt Russell) to travel through the stargate and see what's on the other side; Jackson accompanies him, and the two men turn up in a desert planet on the other side of the universe, with three moons in its sky. The world in question is ruled by Ra (Jaye Davidson), a hermaphroditic Egyptian sun god, who oppresses hordes of slave workers. Jackson and O'Neill then join forces to help the said workers revolt against their oppressor. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi

Category: Science Fiction

Features: 1080p high defintion
16x9 widescreen version
Dts HD high resolution ES audio
5.1 Dolby digital surround EX audio
English and Spanish subtitles
Audio commentary with director Roland Emmerich and producer Dean Devlin
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