Top cast:J. Warren Kerrigan,Charlotte Burton,Jack Richardson
Director:Thomas Bentley
Genre:War
Region:Netherlands
Year:2012
Storyline:Call informed her crew that the scientists were conducting "illegal experiments...breeding an alien species.More than dangerous.If those things get loose, it""s gonna make the Lacerta Plague look like a f--king square dance." Adult aliens escaped and the creatures attacked and killed almost everyone onboard (including General Perez), as the ship""s "Father" computer declared the main vessel uninhabitable.As he wanders through the night and into the morning light, he contemplates whether he will be the messianic, god-like, miraculous savior of the Arabs.The big-budget horror film grossed about $33.4 million (on a budget of $2.3 million), and received two Academy Award nominations: one for Polanski""s Best Adapted Screenplay, and Ruth Gordon won the Best Supporting Actress award for her performance as one of the well-meaning, ""normal"" NYC neighbors.There were two off-shoots of the madcap film:The Producers, a Broadway theatrical musical version produced by Mel Brooks, for a six-year run from 2001-2007, with Nathan Lane (as Max) and Matthew Broderick (as Leo); it earned welve Tony Awards (three for Brooks) including Best Musical [Note: To date, it holds the record as the Broadway musical production with the most Tony Awards for a single production, and the second most-nominated production in Tony history.And become America""s hottest new actress."1982 became known astheyear with many Academy Award-nominated cross-dressing, gender-reversed, drag or transvestite performances/ roles with confused sexual identities:Julie Andrews earned a Best Actress nomination forVictor/Victoria (1982)as Victoria Grant, the title role singer who pretended o be gay Polish cabaret singer Count Victor Grezhinski, while co-star Robert Preston received a Best Supporting Actor nomination as her gay partner-in-crime Carroll "Toddy" Todd, who ended up in drag during the finale singing "Shady Dame From Seville"John Lithgow was given a Best Supporting Actor nomination for playing trans-sexual (sex-changed) ex-football player Roberta Muldoon inThe World According to Garp (1982)and then in 1983, Linda Hunt won Best Supporting Actress for the male role of Chinese-Australian photographer Billy Kwan in the next year""sThe Year of Living Dangerously (1983)Many other cross-dressing comedies - in the guise of examining male-female sex roles - played upon the same main features of this film, beginning with:I Was a Male War Bride (1949), by director Howard Hawks, with Cary Grant as a dress-wearing female to comply with the War Brides ActTorch Song Trilogy (1988), by director Paul Bogart, about witty drag queen actor/playwright Arnold Beckoff (Harvey Fierstein) in a film adaptation of the smash Broadway play of the same nameMrs.