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#1 of 1986 · Certified Fresh

Aliens (1986)

1986 · 137 minutes · Action / Horror / Thriller · Directed by James Cameron
IMDb rating8.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes93%
Box office gross$131.1M

Synopsis

A deep-space salvage crew finds an escape shuttle where Ellen Ripley has been in stasis for 57 years after destroying her ship, the Nostromo, to kill an alien creature that slaughtered the crew. Ripley is debriefed by her Weyland-Yutani Corporation employers, who doubt her claim about alien eggs in a derelict ship on the exomoon LV-426, now the site of a terraforming colony.

Starring

Sigourney WeaverMichael BiehnPaul ReiserLance HenriksenBill Paxton
Box office
$131.1–183.3 million
Budget
$18.5 million
IMDb votes
851,863

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