February 4 - Super 8

Today’s movie is a science fiction film with a scene that happens on February 4. Watch and enjoy this film tonight.

SUPER 8     

On February 4, 1979 [00:59 to 4:02], the day after Elizabeth Lamb’s death in an industrial accident, her son Joe mourns, while her husband, deputy sheriff Jack, blames her co-worker Louis Dainard for her death. Four months later Joe’s best friend Charles Kaznyk is making a Super 8 zombie film for a contest, along with Preston, Martin and Cary. Charles also recruits Alice Dainard to star in the film. While filming at an abandoned railway station, their biology teacher, Dr. Woodward crashes his truck into a train, causing a huge wreck that Charles’s camera records, as the kids run away. They find some strange white cubes. The Air Force arrives to investigate the crash and strange things start to happen. All dogs in the town run away, people go missing and mechanical and electrical devices are mysteriously stolen. Deputy Lamb confronts Col. Nelec, the head of the investigation and is arrested. Alice goes missing. Charles and Joe watch the film of the accident and see a creature escaped from the wreck. The Air Force starts a huge wildfire and uses it as an excuse to evacuate the town. The kids return to town to rescue Alice and Jack Lamb escapes.  At the school, the kids find Dr. Woodward’s hidden films and notes. They learn that an alien crashed in 1958, but instead of helping it return home, it was kept a prisoner. Woodward decided to help it and caused the train crash. The kids are arrested by the Air Force, but the bus carrying them is attacked by the creature and they escape. They return to the town, where the Army is attacking the creature. Joe and Cary climb into a tunnel underneath the cemetery’s garage. They rescue Alice and some other missing people. Joe talks the alien into leaving. The metal cube and metal objects coalesce around the water tower which becomes a spacecraft. The alien blasts off for home.       
                  

Mrs. Lamb’s date of death is given at 53:50 on her tombstone

Producers - J. J. Abrams, Bryan Burk and Steven Spielberg

Director - J. J. Abrams

Screenwriter - J. J. Abrams

Runtime – 1 hour 52 minutes

Released – June 9, 2011

Cast – Joel Courtney as Joe Lamb, Elle Fanning as Alice Dainard, Kyle Chandler as Jack Lamb, Riley Griffiths as Charles Kaznyk, Ryan Lee as Cary McCarthy, Ron Eldard as Louis Dainard, Gabriel Basso as Martin Read, Noah Emmerich as Colonel Nelec, David Gallagher as Donny, Bruce Greenwood as the alien, Zach Mills as Preston Scott, Amanda Michalka as Jen Kaznyk, Glynn Turman as Dr. Thomas Woodward, Michael Hitchcock as Deputy Rosko, Caitriona Balfe as Elizabeth Lamb, Joel McKinnon Miller as Sal Kaznyk, Beau Knapp as Breen, Jessica Tuck as Mrs. Kaznyk, Dan Castellaneta as Izzy, Richard T. Jones as Overmyer, Dale Dickey as Edie, Colin Mathews as Crazy Beto's Customer, Brett Rice as Sheriff Pruitt, Katie Lowes as Tina

Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2016.