A Sound of Thunder

Release Date: Friday, September 2, 2005

Peter Hyams, Breck Eisner, Renny Harlin, Corey Johnson, Andrew Stevens, Ben Kingsley, Edward Burns, Thomas Dean Donnelly, Joshua Oppenheimer, Howard Baldwin, Jemima Rooper, Catherine McCormack, John Hardy, August Zirner, Rick Nathanson, Wilfried Hochholdinger, Karen Elise Baldwin, Phil Anschutz, Romana Cisarova, Scott Bellefeville, Jorg Westerkamp

PG-13 Action 1 hr, 43 m

  • 2.8

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Based on a short story by master of science fiction Ray Bradbury, the sci-fi action adventure "A Sound of Thunder" is set in the future, when time travel is not only possible—it's a lucrative monopoly. It's especially profitable for Charles Hatton (Ben Kingsley), the owner of Time Safari Inc., a travel agency that specializes in escorting wealthy clients on exclusive hunting trips back to the Prehistoric Age. Under the leadership of seasoned scout Dr. Travis Ryer (Edward Burns), participants are permitted to hunt and kill dinosaurs provided they follow a set of strenuous rules. These guidelines are intended to protect the creatures' natural habitats and prevent time travelers from impacting the course of evolution. When an expedition is compromised and the rules are broken, the hunters return to the future...and discover the world is a markedly different place than it was when they left. As "time waves" ripple from the Prehistoric past through the present to the uncharted future, Ryer teams up with Sonia Rand (Catherine McCormack), the inventor of the time travel technology, to unravel the mystery behind the catastrophic historical changes that are threatening to erase humanity from existence.
Action Adventure Fantasy Sci-Fi Thriller

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The film's director Peter Hyams last directed Enemies Closer and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt. The film's writer Thomas Dean Donnelly last wrote Doctor Strange and Conan The Barbarian.

Director
Peter Hyams
Producers
Phil Anschutz
Howard Baldwin
Karen Elise Baldwin
Renny Harlin
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MPA Rating
PG-13 Parents Strongly Cautioned for sci-fi violence, partial nudity, and language
Runtime
1 hr, 43 m
Tagline
Evolve or die.
Also known as
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Language
English

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A Sound of Thunder was released in on Friday, September 2, 2005 . There were 3 other movies released on the same date, including Transporter 2, Underclassman and Margaret Cho: Assassin.



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