War of the Worlds
War of the Worlds is a 2005 American science fiction action 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. It stars Tom Cruise in the main role, Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto and Tim Robbins, with narration by Morgan Freeman. The film follows an American dock worker who is forced to 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
An opening narration by Morgan Freeman explains that Earth was being observed by extraterrestrials with immense intelligence and no compassion. As man dominated the world, without a doubt, much in the way microorganisms swarm in a drop of water, these beings plotted to take it all from 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