Group 11: This Race To Witch Mountain

This Race To Witch Mountain

The Trailer-

This trailer gives us as a viewer an idea of what is yet to happen through out the film. we get an insight of the main characters, we also get and idea of the narrative of the film. the trailer includes sound effects as well as the different camera shots used such as extreme close ups to establishing shots.

The Race to Witch Mountain was released in 2009, it is a science fiction/thriller film. It is a remake of the original 1975 fantasy film, Escape to Witch Mountain.

Both versions of the film are based on the 1968 novel Escape to Witch Mountain by Alexander Key.

The film consists of well known actors and actresses such as-

Dwayne Johnson who plays Jack Bruno
AnnaSophia Robb who plays Sara
Alexander Ludwig who plays Seth
Ciarán Hinds who plays Henry Burke
Carla Gugino who plays Dr. Alex Friedman
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A brief overview of the storyline of the film-

An alien spaceship crashes near Searchlight, Nevada, outside Las Vegas. Project Moon Dust, a secret Defence Department unit led by Henry Burke and one of his young unnamed task forces, arrives in black helicopters. Men in Black seize the ship and search for its passengers.

Jack Bruno is a former mob get-away driver who drives a cab to avoid returning to jail.
After resisting two thugs who seek his services for a mob boss, Bruno finds two teenagers, Sara and Seth , in his cab. They offer $15,000 to drive to a certain destination, in which he discover their aliens have al kinds of powers. Burke's men follow the cab so that the aliens cant escape.
The two teenager retrieve the device their looking for within a hidden underground laboratory. whilst Jack curiously follows them.They are attacked by 'Siphon' a powerful armed alien assassin who followed them since the crash. The three escape Siphon as well as the agents sent out to capture them.
Bruno brings Seth and Sara to Dr. Friedman at the UFO convention, who realizes that the teenagers are what she has been searching for and joins the group.
There, the teenagers explain to Jack and Friedman that they are from a dying planet 3,000 light years from Earth. Its government intends to invade Earth, so that their kind may survive. Their parents are scientists who sought out a way to save their planet without invasion but were arrested before completing their experiment. The teenagers came to retrieve the successful results, but the alien government sent the assassin to stop them. To save both worlds, they must retrieve their spaceship and return home.
Fellow UFOlogist and conspiracy theorist Dr. Donald Harlan tells them that the spaceship was taken to the secret California government base Witch Mountain. The group arrives at the base but are captured. Jack and Friedman tries to threaten the agent by claiming that they will tell the public all of what they have witnessed, however this did not work.
Jack and Friedman try to save the teenagers and with the unintentional help of the Siphon attacks Witch Mountain and battles the soldiers, allowing Jack and Friedman free Seth and Sara. They manage to escape and abort to their spaceship bring them home. The teenagers give Jack and Friedman a tracking device that will allow the aliens to always find them before they travelled home.
Jack and Friedman become successful authors of Race to Witch Mountain: A True Story. They promote their book and knowledge on the UFO convention circuit, explaining that the publicity protects them from government reprisal. As they leave a convention the alien device activates, implying that the teenagers may be returning to Earth.