It all starts with a meteorite falling to earth near Glen Canyon, Arizona. The next day, biology teacher Dr. Ira Kane and geology teacher Harry Block from Glen Canyon Community College go to investigate. While taking a sample, they discover a slimy blue fluid oozing from the meteorite. Kane finds myriad single-celled life-forms in the fluid, evolving at an incredible rate, even while he's watching. What seemed like a sure ticket to Sweden for the Nobel Prize soon develops into a nightmare: by evolving and adapting at an unbelievably fast rate, the aliens start spreading out, and the military comes in. Will humanity save the day?
MPAA rating: PG-13.|||adult
DreamWorks Pictures and Columbia Pictures present a Montecito Picture Company production ; produced by Ivan Reitman, Daniel Goldberg, Joe Medjuck ; story by Don Jakoby ; screenplay by David Diamond & David Weissman and Don Jakoby ; directed by Ivan Reitman.
Special features: a conversation with Ivan Reitman, David Duchovny, Orlando Jones and Seann William Scott; deleted scenes; storyboard selections; visual effects featurette.
David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Seann William Scott, Julianne Moore, Ted Levine.
Director of photography, Michael Chapman ; editors, Sheldon Kahn, Wendy Greene Bricmont ; music, John Powell ; costume designer, Aggie Guerard Rodgers ; production designer, J. Michael Riva ; visual effects supervisor, Phil Tippett.
DVD; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround & 2.0 surround; DTS 5.1 surround.
Closed-captioned.
English and French language tracks; optional subtitles in English, Spanish or French.
