Release Year: 1998 Rating: PG-13 Duration: 121 minutes Other Title: The X Files: Fight the Future, X-Files: The Movie Director: Rob Bowman Producer: Daniel Sackheim, Chris Carter Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox
"The X-Files" stars Mulder and Scully make it to the big screen in this long-awaited extension of the hit television series. True to the premise of the show, the movie opens with the discovery of a mysterious black substance which is predictably covered up by an unnamed, seemingly official group of men. Evading various perils, Mulder and Scully scramble through a series of spectacularly shot scenes not possible in the television productions Mulder and Scully must fight the government in a conspiracy and find the truth about an alien colonization of Earth.
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Blythe Danner as Jana Cassidy David Duchovny as Special Agent Fox Mulder Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully Martin Landau as Alvin Kurtzweil, M.D.
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Bronschweig: So much for little green men.
Strughold: He is but one man. One man alone cannot fight the future.
20th Century Fox Film Corporation presents a Ten Thirteen Productions David Duchovny Gillian Anderson "THE X-FILES: FIGHT THE FUTURE" Mitch Pileggi Blythe Danner William B. Davis Armin Mueller-Stahl John Neville & Martin Landau as Dr. Alvin Kurtzweil Music by Mark Snow Special Make-Up Effects by Alec Gillis & Tom Woodruff, Jr. Co-Producer: Frank Spotnitz Edited by Stephen Mark Production Designer Christopher Nowak Cinematography by Ward Russell Executive Producer: Lata Ryan Produced by Chris Carter & Daniel Sackheim Screenplay by Chris Carter Story by Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz Directed by Rob Bowman