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Twenty years ago, aliens from another planet made contact with Earth. Now, the refugee camp they are forced to live in has deteriorated into a slum-like ghetto. When field operative Wikus van der Merwe is put in charge of evicting the aliens, he contracts a strange virus that changes his DNA to matc...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:District 9 (Motion picture)
Main Author: Shorter, Clinton (Composer)
Corporate Authors: Tri-Star Pictures, Block/Hanson (Firm), WingNut Films (Firm), Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)
Other Authors: Jackson, Peter, 1961- (Producer), Cunningham, Carolynne (Producer), Blomkamp, Neill, 1979- (Screenwriter), Tatchell, Terri (Screenwriter), Copley, Sharlto, 1973- (Actor), Cope, Jason (Actor), Boltt, Nathalie (Actor), Strike, Sylvaine (Actor), Sumner, John, 1951- (Actor), Young, William Allen, 1953- (Actor), Blake, Nick (Actor), James, David (Actor), Haywood, Vanessa (Actor), Gaduka, Mandla (Actor), Nkosi, Kenneth (Actor), Khumbanyiwa, Eugene (Actor), Minnaar, Louis (Actor), Opaloch, Trent (Cinematographer), Clarke, Julian (Film editor), Ivey, Philip (Artistic director)
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
French
Language Notes:In English or French; with optional subtitles in English or French; with optional subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired (SDH)
Published: Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2009]
Edition:Widescreen.
Subjects:
Human-alien encounters > Drama.
Relocation (Housing) > South Africa > Drama.
Virus-vector relationships > Drama.
Refugees > Government policy > South Africa > Drama.
DNA damage > Drama.
South Africa > Drama.
Science fiction films.
Action and adventure films.
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Description
Summary:Twenty years ago, aliens from another planet made contact with Earth. Now, the refugee camp they are forced to live in has deteriorated into a slum-like ghetto. When field operative Wikus van der Merwe is put in charge of evicting the aliens, he contracts a strange virus that changes his DNA to match that of the refugees. As his body begins to mutate, he becomes a hunted man, and the aliens' only hope for freedom.
Item Description:Originally released as a motion picture in 2009.
Special features: deleted scenes ; directors commentary ; "The alien agenda: a filmmaker's log" three-part documentary.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD; region 1; Dolby digital 5.1; aspect ratio 1.85:1.
Audience:MPAA rating: R; for bloody violence and pervasive language.
Awards:Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films Saturn Award, 2010: Best International Film. Austin Film Critics Association Award, 2009: Best First Film (Neill Blomkamp). Boston Society of Film Critics Awards, 2009: Best New Filmmaker (Neill Blomkamp). Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards, 2010: Best Makeup. Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, 2009: Most Promising Filmmaker (Neill Blomkamp). Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards, 2010: Vincent Koehler Award for Oustanding Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror Film. Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, 2009: Best Production Design (Philip Ivey); New Generation Award (Neill Blomkamp). Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Award, 2010: Best Dound Editing - Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue, and ADR in a Foreign Feature Film. Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards, 2009: Breakout Behind the Camera (Neill Blomkamp). Visual Effects Society Awards, 2010: Oustanding Compositing in a Feature Motion Picture (Janeen Elliott, Simon Hughes, Hamish Schumacher, Shervin Shoghian).
Production Credits:Director of photography, Trent Opaloch ; editor, Julian Clarke ; music, Clinton Shorter ; production designer, Philip Ivey.
ISBN:1435932579
9781435932579