While it boasts a handful of shocks, The Fourth Kind is hokey and clumsy and makes its close encounters seem eerily mundane.
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Movie Info
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Director -
Olatunde Osunsanmi -
Producer -
Paul Brooks , Joe Carnahan , Terry Lee Robbins -
Screenwriter -
Olatunde Osunsanmi -
Distributor -
Universal Pictures -
Production Co -
Gold Circle Films , Chambara Pictures , Universal Pictures -
Rating -
PG-13 (Some Terror|Brief Sexuality|Thematic Elements|Violent and Disturbing Images) -
Genre -
Mystery & Thriller -
Original Language -
English -
Release Date (Theaters) -
Nov 6, 2009, Wide -
Release Date (Streaming) -
Feb 12, 2014 -
Box Office (Gross USA) -
$25.5M -
Runtime -
1h 38m