Alien (1979)Stream and Watch Online

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Released June 21st, 1979, 'Alien' stars Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton The R movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 57 min, and received a user score of 82 (out of 100) on TMDb, which assembled reviews from 14,730 knowledgeable users.

Interested in knowing what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed."

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