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Bookmark this pageMimic (1997)
Director: Guillermo del Toro
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From Time Out Film Guide
The first US picture from the Mexican director of Cronos is a sci-fi thriller, fusing a dark, poetic allegory about the perils of genetic manipulation with grim, relentless, subterranean horror. Three years after scientists Sorvino and Northam save New York's children from a polio-like epidemic - by tampering with the DNA structure of the disease's main carrier, the ubiquitous cockroach - the results of their arrogant experiments come back to haunt them. Giant fast-evolving insects now lurk in the subway tunnels beneath the city, mimicking and preying upon their sometime predators, human beings. Uncompromising, subversive and occasionally perversely comic.Author: NF
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Cast & crew
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Producer: Bob Weinstein, BJ Rack, Ole Bornedal
Cast: Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Alexander Goodwin, Giancarlo Giannini, Charles S Dutton, Josh Brolin, F Murray Abraham full cast
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Duration: 106 mins
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