Additional information for Galaxy Quest, which has a domestic theatrical release set for December 25, 1999. The film is being distributed by DreamWorks Pictures and has not yet been rated. Galaxy Quest has a total running time of 102 minutes.
13
Argentina
PG
Australia
PG
Canada
14
Chile
11
Denmark
U
France
12
Germany
IIA
Hong Kong
PG
Ireland
12
Netherlands
PG
New Zealand
PG
Singapore
11
Sweden
PG
UK
G
Philippines
LH
Iceland
PG
USA
M/6
Portugal
All
South Korea
102min
20min
Galaxy Quest
France
Galaxy Quest
Greece
Héroes fuera de órbita
Argentina
Héroes fuera de órbita
Spain
Heróis Fora de Órbita
Brazil
Heróis Fora de Órbita
Portugal
В поисках галактики
Russia
Captain Starshine
USA
Earth Dick
USA
En quête d'une galaxie
Canada
Galaktička pustolovina
Serbia
Galaxy Quest - Galaktitkos küldetés
Hungary
Galaxy Quest - Planlos durchs Weltall
Germany
GalaxyQuest
USA
Kosmiczna zaloga
Poland
December 23, 1999
Canada
December 25, 1999
USA
April 06, 2000
Australia
April 06, 2000
New Zealand
April 13, 2000
Germany
April 13, 2000
Singapore
April 14, 2000
Spain
April 28, 2000
Ireland
April 28, 2000
UK
April 29, 2000
South Korea
May 11, 2000
Hong Kong
May 24, 2000
Philippines
June 29, 2000
Czech Republic
July 20, 2000
Hungary
July 21, 2000
Denmark
July 21, 2000
Sweden
August 04, 2000
Brazil
August 10, 2000
Malaysia
August 11, 2000
Iceland
August 17, 2000
Netherlands
October 04, 2000
Belgium
October 04, 2000
France
October 04, 2000
Kuwait
October 18, 2000
Argentina
October 21, 2000
Norway
November 24, 2000
Italy
December , 2000
Greece
January 20, 2001
Japan
February 14, 2001
Norway
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The alumni cast of a cult space TV show have to play their roles as the real thing when an alien race needs their help.
Galaxy Quest was once a popular "geek" TV show that eventually got cancelled but was so popular among a a cult group that it has spawned 18 annual conventions where fans gather, often in costumes based on the shows, to watch old epsiodes, meet cast members and actors who played even bit parts on single episodes. At Galaxy Quest 18, hosted by Guy Fleegman (Sam Rockwell), an actor who played in episodes 81 and died by the first commercial, the fans are seeing a "lost" epiosode which is part one of a two parter dealing with the Omega 13 device. As this episode is screening in the main room back stage sits the original cast and crew:Alexander Dane (Alan Rickman), who played half human/half alien Dr. Lazarus and moans about how he was once a great actor on the English stage as the beautiful and buxom Gwen DeMarco who plays communications officer Lt. Tawny Madison (Sigourney Weaver) whose job on the ship was to repeat what the computer said, complains that her TV guide article was all about her bustline and how it fit into her uniform, while Tommy Webber (Daryl Mitchell), the child actor who has since grown up and found no life other than Galaxy Quest conventions remarks about how the commander and star of the show Jason Nesmith (Tim Allen) is more than an hour late. Nesmith finally shows up and gets into the "been there done that" groove asking if Dane has already done his "I was once an actor" thing. This, plus the fact the Nesmith is about to do a solo gig without the rest of the cast almost has everyone walking out of the dressing room and heading for home, as Jason tries to explain the gig is a couple of kids with cardboard in a garage and is nothing major.Out on the convention floor Guy now starts introducing the crew of Galaxy Quest, who snap into their roles, especially Dane after Nesmith says the magic words to convince him that "The show must go on!" They go outside to the waiting fans, the spotlights and the roar of the crowds to sit and sign autographs and give the fans a taste of the dream.Gwen happens to smile at Nesmith, basically because Tommy told a hysterically funny and true crack about the fans loving Nesmith almost as much as Nesmith loves himself. In that brief moment Nesmith see's Gwen and remembers times that once were and hopes for a rekindinling of old on the set romance, which Gwen promptly shoots down when fans ask he if she and the commander once had a thing and Gwen replies, as Nesmith comes up behind her. Nope!Gwen is ushered off by officials to do a "look a-like" Tawny Madison and fans in costume photo shoot. Nesmith tries to follow and is confronted by Mathesar (Enrico Colantoni), an actual alien come to Earth to seek the help of Commander Peter Quincy Taggert, the character played on Galaxy Quest by Nesmith. Nesmith thinks this is the group of kids who are paying him to do an appearce in their garage tomorrow and tells them to keep things hush-hush, finalize details with his agent and bring a limo. The brushed off alien contingent mutter a bit and go off to do as he asked with Nesmith tries to corner Gwen who brushes him off with a "it was cute before I got to know you" line.Nesmith eventually goes into the men's room and locks himself in a commode where he overhears two non-geeks who are making fun of the whole Galaxy Quest event and participants and calling the stars loosers who haven't done anything in acting since the show, especially Nesmith who is bad mouthed by his co-stars. Nesmith get's a wake up call and falls totally out of character for the rest of the day. He signs autographs with a "phone it in" mentality, doesn't look at the fans and when confronted by the real hosts of his next day gig turns on them, get's angry and tells them it's just a TV show.Gwen overhears this and later that night talks with fellow co-star Dane about it on the telephone from their respective homes. She expresses concern about Nesmith and Dane just expresses contempt for the whole thing.Nesmith, climbs into a bottle of booze on ice watching reruns of Galaxy Quest on TV and waking up when Mathesar and his fellow aliens come a knocking at Nesmiths' back door. Nesmith doesn't quite rise to the occasion and more like crawls around in his shirt and undies looking for shoes. Eventually they all get into a limo and head to the gig with Nesmith trying to make a play for the pretty alien girl Laliari (Missi Pyle) who can't speak because her translator device broke. Nesmith asks for a coke and prompty takes a nap as they explain the situation to him on the way up to the ship, which is a real Galaxy Quest space ship.Once there, the unshave, groggy and very unkempt Nesmith is taken to the bridge where he confronts the evil bad guy alien Sarris (Robin Sachs) on the Vid screen. Nesmith orders them to fire blue and fire red and fire other stuff. He says that should take care of Sarris and then he asks to be taken back home to Earth. Teb (Jed Rees) really appreciates that Nesmith has saved the people.Nesmith is shown into a room where he is covered by goop that turns into a plastic shell and then he is shot out into space, landing at home by his swimming pool in a state of shock. He runs, as is, unshaven and unkempt, to the electronics store opening they have been contracted to do and tells his fellow actors about his real adventures in space with the "termites" as he calls them.Everyone thinks he's drunk and crazy, even after Mathesar and his fellow aliens show up and want him and the crew to come up and negociate with Sarris. Nesmith tries to convince his fellow actors to come along and help him. Instead they all give Nesmith the brush off and leave, climbing into the same van hostile and critical, except for Fred Kwan (Tony Shalhoub) who plays the Tech Sgt. Chen on the show and said they all should have taken the gig because who knows when Nesmith would offer them a gig again!A gig? They all say, looking at each other and getting out of the van and meeting up with Laliari, whose image remains on Earth as Nesmith thought they might change their minds. Laliari orders up pods for all of them and in short order the acting crew of Galaxy Quest realize they are now on the real deal in outer space and that's a little more reality than they were planning on.We see the aliens in their real form for the first time and they are a type of pastel octopus or quid who use a device to take human shape and speach.Fred Kwan is the only one of the actors who is so out of it he's here now, probably due to too much Hollywood living, he is the only one blindly up for the adventure. Down deep inside he's as crazy as Nesmith only it didn't take him a first time to be that crazy. Gwen and Dane are the only sane ones who think it's totally insane to do this gig! Tommy's trying to deal with it all.They get a tour of the facility, go aboard the ship where they get more of a tour and meet the crew and other "termites" as Nesmith calls them. They take their places on the bridge and take the ship out into space to meet with Sarris.We learn that Mathes and his people think Earth TV is serious documentary news and that shows like Galaxy Quest and Gilligan's Island are reality TV or new reports like the war in Iraq. Gwen and Dane take issue with Nesmith who is going along with this blindly because they think he's on an ego trip and maybe he is! He sure likes inspecting the troops.The audience eventually discovers that Sarris had captured and torchered the last commander who told Sarris all about things on Galagy Quest, including the coveted Omega 13 device, which Sarris wants to own at all costs. The "termites" don't know what the Omega 13 does, but badly-constructed, the device will disintegrate every matter atom in the universe. However, nobody knows where it is.This sends the actors packing, except for Nesmith who still thinks he can handle Sarris. Well, he has to as Sarris has arrived and they must confront him. Sarris overhears Nesmith talking about his plans of attacking him with all their weapons because Gwen didn't follow Nesmith's order to cut the microphone, so he shoots first. The engine dies off, but sinergy leads the starship to a landmine abandoned since an old war. When they leave the place, they manage to stop the starship.The crew tries to explain that the Galaxy's adventures are a fiction, not historical documents, but the concept doesn't entirely resonate with the aliens: they have just started to understand the concept of "lie" and "deceit" as Sarris promises something and then does another thing. A new sphere of the energy source called beridium is found in a planet nearby, so they have to go and pick them. Arriving to the planet where the sphere is, it looks like the rocky Nevada desert, and they can breathe naturally. A kind of home appears. Some little monkeys are working on the mines. Guy is worried that he's the extra - the sixth crewmember- who hasn't got even a simple surname. One of the cute little monkeys is weak and sick, so the rest of the mining monkeys eat it alive.The crew try to steal one of the beridium spheres and take it away rolling. Hundreds of monkeys appear. The starship leaves with the sphere but without Nesmith, as Lazarus complains that Nesmith needs to be always the main protagonist. A huge animal is about to eat Nesmith. The animal is tele-transported, and it dies painfully, becoming a ball of goo. The monkeys keep on shouting "ginjac", which is a monster made of rocks. Finally, Nesmith is teletransported to the ship.Back at the spaceship, Sarris has invaded the ship. Apart from that, Nesmith is told that there are no more people on planet Earth. Nesmith says that there is no use in torturing Mathesar, as he doesn't know what the Omega 3 device really is. He and Gwen show Sarris the "historical documents", who immediately understands the situation. He forces Nesmith to explain to Mathesar in simple words that a child can understand that they are not heroes, but only actors.Sarris tells its thugs that they are going to make the starship explode with everybody inside. However, Nesmith and Lazarus prentend to fight, and they use the distraction to throw their guardians to the space void. Gwen reminds Nesmith that neither of them can activate a netron engine. But Nesmith knows somebody who will know how to opearte it. Brandon (Justin Long) is a nerdy geek who asked a lot of technical questions during one of the gigs. Gwen and Nesmith follow Brandon and his friend Kyle (Jeremy Howard)'s instructions. When asked what the Omega 3 device may do, Brandon says they think that it may allow to go back in time in 13 seconds. Hollister (Jonathan Feyer) discovers the rhythm of the smashig iron poles.Lazarus and Quellek (Patrick Breen) open the door to bring oxygen to the Thermians. Laliari and Fred kiss like crazy. Finally, Nesmith reaches the blue button which will finish the explosion. Brandon can't help Nesmith and give him an alternate solution when the blue button doesn't stop the countdown because his mother, Katelyn (Kaitlin Cullum) forces him to take the rubbish out. Nesmith and Gwen hug, listening to the last seconds of the countdown. However, in the series, the countdown always used to stop a second before, and that's what happens.Nesmith orders Tommy to drive the spaceship to the landmine. There, the magnetism of the ship attracts many mines. Nesmith's ship faces Sarris' ship, and goes down in the last second. The mines destroy Sarris' ship.However, after going through a black hole, Tommy mentions an increase of energy from Sarris' ship. He's entered Nesmith's ship, pretending to be Fred. He wounds Nesmith and kills the rest of the crw. Nesmith shouts to Mathesar to turn on the Omega 3 device, so he arrives back in time - only 13 seconds, but time enough to hit Fred as soon as he enters the control room.All the Thermians leave the spaceship, except for Laliari. They arrive to the convention they were supposed to - where thousands of geek fans are already disappointed they are not there - crash-landing with their spaceship thanks to Brandon and his friends. In the convention, each cast member leaves the ship half-suffocated and dizzy. Sarris also wakes up, but he is killed in a second, something which drives the fans wild.CUE to the new season of Galaxy Quest - the cast includes a character called Laliari, performed by Jane Doe and who kisses Fred, and a new security leueitenant, interpreted by the extra actor Guy Fleegman.
Dean Parisot
Director(s)
David Howard
David Howard
Robert Gordon
Writer(s)
Elizabeth Cantillon
executive producer
Allegra Clegg
associate producer
Suzann Ellis
co-producer
Sona Gourgouris
co-producer
Mark Johnson
producer
Janet Lewin
associate producer
Charles Newirth
producer
Producer(s)
David Newman
Composer(s)
Jason Nesmith
Tim Allen
Gwen DeMarco
Sigourney Weaver
Alexander Dane
Alan Rickman
Fred Kwan
Tony Shalhoub
Guy Fleegman
Sam Rockwell
Tommy Webber
Daryl Mitchell
Mathesar
Enrico Colantoni
Sarris
Robin Sachs
Quellek
Patrick Breen
Laliari
Missi Pyle
Teb
Jed Rees
Brandon
Justin Long
Kyle
Jeremy Howard
Katelyn
Kaitlin Cullum
Hollister
Jonathan Feyer
Young Tommy
Corbin Bleu
Lathe
Wayne Pére
Neru (as Samuel Lloyd)
Sam Lloyd
Fan #1
Bill Chott
Fan #2
Morgan Rusler
Fan #3
Gregg Binkley
Fan #4 (as Brandon Michael de Paul)
Brandon de Paul
Fan #5
Paul G. Kubiak
Fan #6 (as Greg Colbrook)
Gregory Colbrook
Shy Girl
Jennifer Manley
Teen in the Bathroom #1
John Patrick White
Teen in the Bathroom #2
Todd Giebenhain
Excited Alien
J.P. Manoux
Navigator
Dan Gunther
Technician #1
Matt Winston
Technician #2
Brandon Keener
Nervous Tech
Dian Bachar
Lahnk
Rainn Wilson
Teek (scenes deleted)
Susan Egan
Brandon's Mom
Heidi Swedberg
Sarris' Guard
Isaac C. Singleton Jr.
Reporter
Jerry Penacoli
Warrior Alien
Joel McKinnon Miller
Announcer (as Kevin Hamilton McDonald)
Kevin McDonald
Alien Fan (as Daniel T. Parker)
Daniel Parker
Director(s)
David Howard
Robert Gordon
Writer(s)
executive producer
Allegra Clegg
associate producer
Suzann Ellis
co-producer
Sona Gourgouris
co-producer
Mark Johnson
producer
Janet Lewin
associate producer
Charles Newirth
producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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