War of the Worlds
War of the Worlds is a 2005 American science fiction action-thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Josh Friedman and David Koepp, based on H. G. Wells' 1898 novel, The War of the Worlds. Tom Cruise stars in the main role alongside Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto and Tim Robbins, with narration by Morgan Freeman. It follows an American dock worker who must look after his children, from whom he lives separately, as he struggles to protect them and reunite them with their mother when extraterrestrials invade Earth and devastate cities with giant war machines.
Plot
A narrator opens the film stating that extraterrestrials with immense intelligence have grown envious of humanity's dominion of Earth, and are therefore plotting against them.
Cast
- Amy Ryan
- Ann Robinson
- Becky Ann Baker
- Channing Tatum
- Columbus Short
- Dakota Fanning
- Daniel Franzese
- Danny Hoch
- David Alan Basche
- David Harbour
- Gene Barry
- George Fisher
- John Scurti
- Julie White
- Justin Chatwin
- Kirsten Nelson
- Lenny Venito
- Lisa Ann Walter
- Miranda Otto
- Morgan Freeman
- Peter Gerety
- Rick Gonzalez
- Shanna Collins
- Stephen Gevedon
- Tim Robbins
- Tom Cruise
- Ty Simpkins
- Yul Vazquez