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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 film)

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1978 film about a group of people in San Francisco who discover the human race is being replaced one by one, with clones devoid of emotion.

Directed by Philip Kaufman. Written by W.D. Richter, based on the novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney
The seed is planted...terror grows. taglines
See also:
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956 film)

Elizabeth Driscoll

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  • [Matthew finds that she has fallen asleep and has become a pod] There's nothing to be afraid of. They were right. It's painless. It's good. Come. Sleep. Matthew. [Matthew begins to back away] Matthew. Matthew!

Dr. David Kibner

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  • It's like there's some kind of a hallucinatory flu going around. People seem to get over it in a day or two. All I can do is treat the symptoms.
  • [after being transformed] We came here from a dying world. We drift through the universe, from planet to planet, pushed on by the solar winds. We adapt and we survive. The function of life is survival.

Jack Bellicec

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  • The rest of the world is trying to change people for to fit the world. I'm trying to change the world to fit people.
  • Here I am, you pod bastards! Hey, pods! Come and get me, you scum!

Dialogue

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Matthew: Do you want to go see my friend David Kibner?
Elizabeth: The psychiatrist?
Matthew: Not like that. Talk to him. He would put things into perspective. -...
Elizabeth: I'm not crazy.
Matthew: No, no, no. I'm serious. He would eliminate whether Geoffrey was having an affair, or had become gay. Whether he had a social disease, or had become a Republican. All the things that could have happened to have made you feel he had changed.
Elizabeth: I keep seeing these people, all recognizing each other. Something is passing between them all, some secret. It's a conspiracy, I know it.
Matthew: There can't be a conspiracy!
Elizabeth: Matthew, I'm telling you something is going on here.
Dr. Kibner: Face it, Bellicec, you got some friends who enjoy playing practical jokes.
Jack: I don't have any friends, Dr. Kibner.
Dr. Kibner: Then, some enemies.
Dr. Kibner: Elizabeth, could you please tell me, in your opinion, what is going on?
Elizabeth: People are being duplicated. And once it happens to you, you're part of this... thing. It almost happened to me!
Elizabeth: I have seen these flowers all over. They are growing like parasites on other plants. All of a sudden. Where are they coming from?
Nancy: Outer space?
Jack: What are you talking about? A space flower?
Nancy: Well why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
Jack: I've NEVER expected metal ships.
Matthew: [dials his phone] I'll get the police.
Telephone Operator: Police.
Matthew: Officer, I'd like to report four bodies.
Telephone Operator: Wait right there Mr. Bennell.
Matthew: How do you know my name?
Jack: Hang up, Matthew.
Matthew: [into the phone] I didn't tell you my name.
Jack: Hang up!
Matthew: [hangs up the phone] I didn't tell them my name!
Nancy: That's because they're all part of it. They're all pods, all of them!
Elizabeth: Yep, Boccardo's pills. He eats it like candy... or used to. Take some.
Matthew: What are they?
Elizabeth: Speed. They'll keep us awake.
Matthew: How many are you supposed to take?
Elizabeth: It says take one.
Matthew: Take five.
Elizabeth: Matthew, we'll never be able to stop them!
Matthew: Yes, we will.
Elizabeth: We can't! Look it, they control the whole city.
Matthew: We'll find a way somehow.
Elizabeth: Oh, Matthew, I can't go on! I wanna go to sleep. I can't stay awake any more.
Matthew: You have to. You have to stay awake.
Elizabeth: I hate you.
Dr. Kibner: We don't hate you - there's no need for hate now. Or love.
Matthew: Listen, we're not the last humans left. There are people who will fight you. They will find out what you're doing here.
Elizabeth: They'll stop you.
Dr. Kibner: In an hour you won't want them to. Don't be trapped by old concepts, Matthew, you're evolving into a new lifeform.
[last lines]
Nancy: Matthew?
[Matthew, now a duplicate, lets out a loud, spine-chilling scream and points to her.]
Nancy: No! Stop!

Taglines

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  • Get some sleep
  • Watch out! They get you while you're sleeping!
  • Sleep ... Sleep ... and be born again into a world without fear and hate!
  • You'll never close your eyes again.
  • From deep space...
  • The seed is planted...terror grows.

Cast

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