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For four years, the courageous crew of the NSEA protector - "Commander Peter Quincy Taggart" (Tim Allen), "Lt. Tawny Madison (Sigourney Weaver) and "Dr. Lazarus" (Alan Rickman) - set off on a thrilling and often dangerous mission in space...and then their series was cancelled! Now, twenty years later, aliens under attack have mistaken the Galaxy Quest television transmissions for "historical documents" and beam up the crew of has-been actors to save the universe. With no script, no director and no clue, the actors must turn in the performances of their lives.
*Galactopedia: An on-screen interactive encyclopedia that tracks the movie's spaceships, alien races, and planets in real time as you watch. *Featurettes: Includes Historical Documents: The Making of Galaxy Quest, Never Give Up, Never Surrender: The Intrepid Crew of the NSEA Protector, and By Grabthar's Hammer, Joshua Brand's Profile of Alien Actor Thermian Commander Sarris. *Deleted Scenes *Audio Track: Includes an optional audio track that dubs the entire movie into the native alien Thermian language.
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Galaxy Quest (1999)
102 min
For four years, the courageous crew of the NSEA Protector — Commander Peter Quincy Taggart, Lieutenant Tawny Madison, and Doctor Lazarus — set off on a thrilling and often dangerous mission in space... until their series was cancelled! Now, twenty years later, aliens under attack have mistaken the Galaxy Quest television transmissions for "historical documents" and beam up the crew of has-been actors to save the universe. With no script, no director, and no clue, the actors must turn in the performances of their lives.
Synopsis via TMDB