COPYCAT

GENRE:  Crime/ Mystery/ Thriller
MADE:  1995
CAST:  Sigourney Weaver, Holly Hunter, Dermot Mulroney
DIRECTOR:  Jon Amiel
WRITER:  Ann Biderman, David Madsen

PLOT:  Ever since psychologist Helen Hudson was almost murdered by testifying against a serial killer she has been holed up in her swanky apartment home with agoraphobia.  A copycat serial killer now stalks her with the goal to finish her off and she must pair up with a couple of detectives in order to catch the suspect.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Silence Of The Lambs, The Red Dragon, Seven

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ALIEN

GENRE:  Science fiction/ Horror
MADE:  1979
CAST:  Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto
DIRECTOR:  Ridley Scott
WRITER:  Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett,

PLOT:  Set in the future, a ship lands on an unknown planet on orders from Earth to look into a SOS signal when things begin to to terribly awry, beginning with the break of the ship's quarantine rules.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Predators, Doom, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, The Thing

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PLANET EARTH

GENRE:  Documentary
MADE:  2006
CAST:  David Attenborough, Sigourney Weaver
DIRECTOR:  n/a
WRITER:  n/a

PLOT:  A popular BBC Television documentary series traveling around the world filming nature, from the skies, caves, deserts, waters and much more with narration by David Attenborough and Sigourney Weaver, filled with interesting information about the world around us and beautiful scenes.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Animals Are Beautiful People, Winged Migration, March Of The Penguins

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NOTE:  This is truly an awesome dvd series to have.  I bought the whole set first on dvd and then again when it came out on bluray.  The set comes with 5 discs, each series is ended by a 30-minute documentary on the filming and making of the subject, whether it be caves, seas, air, desert etc.  The narration was perfect, not at all annoying how some other narrations can be.  Truly a series every home should have.

AVATAR

GENRE:  Sci-fi/Action
MADE:  2009
CAST:  Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver
DIRECTOR:  James Cameron
WRITER:  James Cameron

PLOT:  Jake a paraplegic ex-marine is sent to take his murdered twin-brothers place in a science mission conducted by Pandora consisting of avatars and another world.  Jake soon finds love in the alien world with a Na'vi, Neytiri and he must decide where his loyalty stands.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Star Trek, Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace

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