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"War of the Worlds" DVD

By Ivana Redwine, About.com

DVD Release Date: November 22, 2005

Tagline: "They're already here."

Length: 116 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for frightening sequences of sci-fi violence and disturbing images

Movie Summary:
Steven Spielberg directed this sci-fi film, which stars Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning. The story originated in an 1898 H.G. Wells novel, induced national panic when it was told in a 1938 Orson Welles radio broadcast, and was made into a 1953 movie starring Gene Barry and Ann Robinson (who appear in the 2005 film as the grandparents). In Spielberg's version, a divorced father (Cruise) struggles to save himself and his kids when Earthlings are terrorized by extraterrestrial aliens.

Selected DVD Features:

• Widescreen

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