Top cast:Hal Reid,Julia Swayne Gordon,Clara Kimball Young
Director:Francis Ford Coppola
Genre:Fantasy
Region:Greece
Year:1999
Storyline:He's Hans Gruber's brother" - the psychopathic brother of terrorist Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), whom McClane killed at the Nakatomi Towers in LA in the first film set in 1988.Onward to Reata in Texas:The dissolve marked a long passage of time and a major transition.The next scene was introduced with a close-up of a golden round emblem on the back of a train car: Texas & Western - Benedict Reata (with an R brand).Kubrick's sci-fi experiment intended to present its story almost purely with visual imagery and auditory signals with very little communicative human dialogue (similar to what was attempted in the surreal, fragmented, non-narrative imagery of theQatsitrilogy - from 1983-2002, from Godfrey Reggio).The only two witnesses in attendance were the droids C-3PO and R2-D2.Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)With some of the same characters from the previous films, although in a different time period.It was the fifth film in the entire saga - and the second prequel in the series in terms of chronology.The film lost in the categories of: Best Picture (it lost toGandhi, an upset to many children & adults!), Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, and Best Screenplay (Melissa Mathison, who was later married to star Harrison Ford - their scene in the film as the School Principal and Nurse was cut).