COLOR | WIDESCREEN (2.35:1)
RUNTIME: 2 hrs 1 mn (DIRECTOR'S CUT: 2 hrs 10 mn)
PRODUCERS: Joel B. Michaels, Oliver Eberle, and Dean Devlin
DIRECTOR: Roland Emmerich
SCREENPLAY: Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich
CAST: Kurt Russell, James Spader, Jaye Davidson, French Stewart, Erick Avari, Alexis Cruz, John Diehl, Mili Avital, Viveca Lindfors, Leon Rippy, Djimon Hounsou
ORIGINAL MUSIC: David Arnold
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Karl Walter Lindenlaub
PRODUCTION DESIGN: Holger Gross
SYNOPSIS: An Egyptologist discovers that a large stone artifact found decades earlier in the sands of Giza is actually an interstellar portal.