Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Mild
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfortunately, although Newt and Hicks do not survive the crash, a more unwelcome visitor does. The prison does not allow weapons of any kind, and with aid being a long time away, the prisoners must simply survive in any way they can.
- prison
- android
- spacecraft
- dystopia
- imprisonment
- space travel
- space colony
- redemption
- rottweiler
- sequel
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Brian Glover — Andrews
- Ralph Brown — Aaron
- Danny Webb — Morse
- Christopher John Fields — Rains
- Holt McCallany — Junior
- Lance Henriksen — Bishop II
- Christopher Fairbank — Murphy
- Carl Chase — Frank
- Leon Herbert — Boggs
- Vincenzo Nicoli — Jude
- Pete Postlethwaite — David
- Directed
- David Fincher
- Written
- Larry Ferguson, Vincent Ward, Walter Hill, David Giler
Production
- Rating
- 6.4 / 10 · 6,565 ratings
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox, Brandywine Productions
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1979Alien
Where it starts.
Aliens
1986
Alien³
1992 · You’re here
Alien Resurrection
1997
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
