Miramax Films darlings Robert Rodriguez and screenwriter Kevin Williamson teamed up for a high-school alien-horror film that they described as The Breakfast Club meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Dilapidated Herrington High is the location for a story about a school faculty taken over by ...more
MPAA Rating: R | Year: 1998 | Running Time: 120 minutes
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$13.99FACULTY
Essentially an attempt to do for the science-fiction/thriller genre what the author had done for the slasher film with 1996's Scream, Kevin Williamson's The Faculty raised the question of where to draw the line between homage and theft. Lifting its plot directly from Jack Finney's -The Body Snatchers and the films it inspired, The Faculty ostensibly gets itself off the hook by mentioning Finney's story in the film itself. Was it post-modernism or plagiarism? Regardless, with The Faculty, ...more
- Elijah Wood - Casey Connor
- Josh Hartnett - Zeke
- Jordana Brewster - Delilah Profitt
- Clea Duvall - Stokely 'Stokes' Mitchell
- Michelle Holmes - student
- Famke Janssen - Miss Elizabeth Burke
- Piper Laurie - Mrs. Karen Olson
- Robert Patrick - Coach Joe Willis
- Summer Phoenix
- Harry Knowles - Water Guy
- Usher Raymond - Gabe Santora
- Jon Stewart - Mr. Furlong
- Shawn Hatosy - Stan Rosado
- Salma Hayek - Nurse Rosa Harper
- Robert Rodriguez - Director
- Harvey Weinstein - Executive Producer
- Bob Weinstein - Executive Producer
- Elizabeth Avellan - Producer
- Robert Rodriguez - Producer
- Kevin Williamson - Screenwriter
- Ed Vega - Art Director
- Mary Vernieu - Casting
- Anne McCarthy - Casting
- Michael T. Boyd - Costume Designer
- Douglas Aarniokoski - First Assistant Director
- Robert Rodriguez - Editor
- Marco Beltrami - Composer (Music Score)
- Howard Berger - Makeup Special Effects













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