A space shuttle mysteriously crashes on Earth, and an extraterrestrial disease in the wreckage...

THE INVASIONTHE INVASION"...I have set before you life "...I have set before you life and death, the blessing and and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in the curse. So choose life in order that you may live…”order that you may live…”

--Deut. 30:19 --Deut. 30:19

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A space shuttle mysteriously crashes on Earth, and an extraterrestrial disease in the wreckage begins infecting human beings. A psychiatrist, Carol Bennell (Nicole Kidman), and her colleague Ben Driscoll (Daniel Craig) discover that the transformation caused by the infection is triggered by REM sleep, robbing the victims of their humanity. As the infection spreads, fewer people can be trusted. Fighting to stay awake, Carol looks for her son, who may hold the answer to stopping the invasion

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● The film was originally slated to be released in June 2006, but it was postponed to 2007.● The film, whose original title Invasion of the Body Snatchers was shortened to Invasion due to Kajganich's different concept, was changed once more to The Visiting so it would not be confused with ABC's TV series Invasion● Nicole Kidman was cast to star in the film receiving a salary of close to $17 million. P

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NICOLE KIDMAN (Carol)DANIEL CRAIG (Ben)JEREMY NORTHAM (Tucker)JEFFREY WRIGHT (Dr. Galeano)JACKSON BOND (Oliver)

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NICOLE KIDMAN (Carol)In January of 2006, Kidman was awarded Australia’s highest honor, the Companion in the Order of Australia. In addition, she was named Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Development Fund for Women, UNIFEM; has served as the UNICEF Ambassador for Australia; and, in 2003, became the first Chair of the Women’s Health Fund at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

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DANIEL CRAIG (Ben) best known as the latest James Bond. He first starred as the iconic Agent 007 in the 2006 blockbuster “Casino Royale,” the highest-grossing Bond film to date. He will reprise his role in the next installment of the James Bond franchise set for release in 2008. His upcoming films also “The Golden Compass,” in with Nicole Kidman; and the World War II drama “Defiance”; and “Flashbacks of a Fool,” which Craig is also executive producing.

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Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel with James McTeigue Screenplay by David KajganichNovel "The Body Snatchers" by Jack FinneyOriginal Music by John Ottman Cinematography by Rainer Klausmann Film Editing by Hans Funck and Joel Negron Casting by Ronna Kress

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OLIVER HIRSCHBIEGEL (Director) earned accolades for the 2004 German war film “Downfall” which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. The film, which chronicles the last days of Hitler and the collapse of the Nazi regime, also won several international awards.

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A massive explosion lights up the skies from Dallas to Washington, DC, shattering the space shuttle Patriot into pieces that rain down across the U.S. The authorities are quick to seize control of the situation, but stories emerge about a strange substance found clinging to the wreckage—something that withstood the extreme cold of space and searing heat of reentry to get here. And the first to come in contact with it are the first to change… But no one wants to start a panic.

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DC psychiatrist Carol Bennell does not connect what happened to the shuttle with the bizarre occurrences that seem to accelerate around her: one of her patients is terrified that her husband has been replaced by a stranger; violent outbursts on the streets are quickly subdued; and a very strange substance comes home in her son Oliver’s Halloween candy—something that might, in fact, be alive.

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She tells her friend and fellow doctor, Ben Driscoll, that something is very wrong despite the fact that Washington does not seem concerned. The official word is that it’s simply a new form of flu, but before realizing the weight of what’s happening Carol lets Oliver spend the weekend with his estranged dad, a high-level official with the Center for Disease Control, who is in Washington investigating the crash and was one of the first people on the scene.

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As the epidemic spreads, Carol discovers that the very people in charge of inoculation against it are spreading something far worse—a spore of unknown origin that attacks human DNA while the host sleeps, remaking it in the image of a life-form that looks like us and talks like us, but with all human emotion drained away.

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Seemingly overnight, the people around her are transformed into hive-like beings with one imperative: to infect others and take control. Doing everything in her power to stay awake, Carol embarks on a desperate journey into a changed world to stay alive long enough to find her son. To hide among them, she will have to remain calm… betray no emotion… and, most of all, not fall asleep.

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Grade B---Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

A slick but forgettable, characterless thriller.--Dennis Harvey, Variety

The uninspired fourth version of the 1956 sci-fi classic "Invasion of the Body Snatchers,"--Joanne Kaufman, Wall Street Journal

Newest 'Invasion' misses its chances--Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

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FREE WILL

“Man was predestined to have free will.” --Hal Lee Luyah

“Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.” --Jawaharlal Nehru

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BEING HUMAN = STRUGGLE

“Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!” --Swami Sivananda

“Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.” --Daisaku Ikeda

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CHOOSE LIFE

“Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.” --Ayn Rand

"...I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live…”--The Hebrew Bible, Deut. 30:19 (NASB)

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