Rating: PG13
Genre: Science Fiction
Release Date: 11/03/1998
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1/DDS
Run Time: 138 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Situations
Distributor/Studio: Columbia TriStar

Dedicated to Tomoyuki Tanaka (1910-1997), who produced the 1954 original and sequels, the Devlin/Emmerich interpretation displays a redesign of Godzilla, now a large lizard mutated after fallout from French nuclear tests. A blinding flash of white light fills the Eastern sky. Thousands of miles away, the Pacific Ocean churns, engulfing a freighter. On another part of the globe, giant footsteps plow a path through miles of Panamanian forests, Tahitian villages, and Jamaican beaches. In the Ukraine, biologist Dr. Niko Tatopoulos (Matthew Broderick), with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, is examining the impact of radiation on Chernobyl earthworms. Colonel Hicks (Kevin Dunn) and a military team escort Niko to check out giant claw marks on the beached freighter; they're joined by paleontologists Elsie Chapman (Vicki Lewis) and Mendel Craven (Malcolm Danare). Blood and giant-size footprints indicate "some sort of enormous reptile." French secret agent Philippe Roache talks to the freighter's only survivor, who keeps repeating, "Gojira...Gojira." Tatopoulos et al arrive in Manhattan's Fulton Fish Market where Godzilla surfaces, moving on to the NYC financial district where Mayor Ebert (Michael Lerner) is speaking. Ambitious Audrey Timmonds (Maria Pitillo), who works for TV news anchor Charles Caiman (Harry Shearer), is Niko's former girlfriend, and she uses this to her professional advantage. As the wave of destruction continues, Niko and Roache track the creature through the evacuated city and discover Godzilla's eggs about to hatch in Madison Square Garden. They are followed by Audrey and TV cameraman Victor "Animal" Palotti (Hank Azaria), and soon the hatching Godzilla offspring prowl the Garden corridors, leading to a final showdown.

~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Matthew Broderick - Dr. Niko Tatopoulos
Jean Reno - Philippe Roache
Maria Pitillo - Audrey Timmonds
Hank Azaria - Victor (Animal) Palotti
Kevin Dunn - Colonel Hicks
Michael Lerner - Mayor Ebert
Harry Shearer - Charles Caiman
Arabella Field - Lucy Palotti
Vicki Lewis - Dr. Elsie Chapman
Doug Savant - Sergeant O'Neal
Malcom Danare - Dr. Mendel Craven
Lorry Goldman - Gene

Production:
Roland Emmerich - Director
Dean Devlin - Producer
Robert N. Fried Kelly Van Horn Peter Winther - Co Producer
David Arnold - Composer
Peter Amundson David J. Siegel - Editor
Dean Devlin Roland Emmerich - Screen Writer
Victor Zolfo - Set Designer
Robert Woodruff - Art Director
Eric Pascarelli - Camera Operator
April Webster - Casting
David Bloch - Casting
Ueli Steiger - Cinematographer
Cary Woods - Co-Executive Producer
Robert N. Fried - Co-Executive Producer
Joseph Porro - Costume Designer
Roland Emmerich - Executive Producer
Ute Emmerich - Executive Producer
William Fay - Executive Producer
Dionne McNeff - Executive in Charge of Production
Kim Winther - First Assistant Director
Oliver Scholl - Production Designer
Dean Devlin - Screen Story
Roland Emmerich - Screen Story
Ted Elliott - Screen Story
Terry Rossio - Screen Story
Josef Rusnak - Second Unit Director
Peter Jochen Krause - Second Unit Director Of Photography
Jose Antonio Garcia - Sound/Sound Designer
Patrick Tatopoulos - Special Effects
Volker Engel - Special Effects Supervisor
Chuck Picerni, Jr. - Stunts
Jim Halty - Stunts
R.A. Rondell - Stunts Coordinator
William Ladd Skinner - Supervising Art Director
Elizabeth Greenberg - Casting

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