Additional information for Mimic, which has a domestic theatrical release set for August 22, 1997. The film is being distributed by Dimension Films and has not yet been rated. Mimic has a total running time of 105 minutes.
16
Argentina
M
Australia
KNT
Belgium
14
Brazil
AA
Canada
14
Chile
K-16
Finland
16
Germany
16
Netherlands
15
Norway
M/16
Portugal
NC-16
Singapore
16
South Africa
15
South Korea
13
Spain
15
Sweden
15
UK
R
USA
16
Iceland
U
Malaysia
-12
France
PG-13
Philippines
B
Mexico
105min
112min
Mimic
France
Mimic
Greece
Mimic
Mexico
Mimic
Spain
Judus
USA
Métamorphose
Canada
Mimic - ääretön vaara
Finland
Mimic - A júdás faj
Hungary
Mimic - Angriff der Killerinsekten
Germany
Mimic - Terror en el metro
Venezuela
Mimic - gränslös fara
Finland
Mimic: ute av kontroll
Norway
Mimik
Slovenia
Mimikrija
Serbia
Mutação
Brazil
Mutant
Poland
Predadores de Nova York
Portugal
Tehlikeli yaratiklar
Turkey
June , 1997
Italy
August 22, 1997
USA
September 02, 1997
Italy
September 04, 1997
Netherlands
September 06, 1997
France
September 24, 1997
France
October 09, 1997
Spain
October 10, 1997
Mexico
November 06, 1997
Singapore
November 20, 1997
Hong Kong
November 27, 1997
Australia
December 12, 1997
Brazil
January 09, 1998
Turkey
January 24, 1998
Japan
February 21, 1998
Portugal
February 26, 1998
Germany
March 24, 1998
Netherlands
May 01, 1998
Sweden
June 12, 1998
Portugal
June 19, 1998
Denmark
June 19, 1998
Switzerland
June 26, 1998
Finland
June 26, 1998
Ireland
June 26, 1998
UK
July 03, 1998
Norway
July 16, 1998
Argentina
July 17, 1998
Iceland
July 23, 1998
Slovenia
December 02, 1998
Venezuela
January 30, 1999
South Korea
February 05, 1999
Thailand
July 29, 1999
Hungary
September 11, 2001
Russia
October 09, 2006
Greece
December 04, 2008
Poland
September 15, 2011
Canada
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Three years ago entomologist Dr. Susan Tyler genetically created an insect to kill cockroaches carrying a virulent disease, now the insects are out to destroy their only predator, mankind!
For the past two years, New York has been in the grip of an epidemic: Strickler's Disease is threatening to wipe out an entire generation of the city's children. Efforts to find either a vaccine or a cure have failed. But there is some hope in the recent discovery that the common cockroach is responsible for spreading the disease. Dr. Peter Mann (Jeremy Northam), of the Center for Disease Control, enlists the aid of Dr. Susan Tyler (Mira Sorvino), a noted entomologist. She develops a new species of insect she calls the Judas Breed, genetically engineered to secrete an enzyme that poisons normal cockroaches, and then die without reproducing within 180 days. Six months later, at a press conference, Dr. Mann announces that the epidemic is officially over. Peter and Susan are now married, and hope to start a family soon. Susan still has some misgivings about manipulating the DNA of the Judas Breed, but Peter assures her they did the right thing.On a rainy night three years later, in a run-down church in a Lower Eastside neighborhood, a preacher (Pak-Kwong Ho) is attacked and flees to the roof of the building. His assailant, a tall, thin man in a long overcoat, follows. The preacher jumps onto a painter's scaffold, rigged to the side of the building, to escape; the ropes break and he falls to his death in the alley below. After a few moments, his body is dragged roughly into a nearby storm drain. A ten-year-old autistic boy, Chuy (Alexander Goodwin), watches dispassionately from the apartment building across the alley where he lives with his father, Manny (Giancarlo Giannini). Chuy imitates the clicking sounds the attacker made with a pair of spoons. Repeating "funny, funny shoes" to himself, he begins to bend a scrap of wire into a small figure.Next morning Peter arrives at the church. Police officers checking on the broken scaffold have discovered a large group of illegal immigrants locked up in the basement, all infected with yellow fever. The CDC will need to set up a quarantine and investigate. As Peter and his assistant Josh (Josh Brolin) look through the seedy old church, they come across a nasty surprise in a basement passageway: Several large clumps of feces fastened to the ceiling, and hanging down from it, like stalactites. Peter is concerned, since there is a connection between the basement passageways, and the subway tunnels. Josh collects a sample for analysis; later, he shows Peter one of the bizarre components found in the sample: buttons...regular buttons...from human clothing.That afternoon, Susan is working in her lab with her assistant, Remy (Alix Koromzay). They are approached by a couple of twelve-year-old boys (James Costa and Javon Barnwell). Susan has a standing offer to pay the neighborhood kids for any unusual bugs they find, and these two have brought her a number of specimens...including a very unusual one, taped up in a cornflakes box. She offers them $10 for everything; they accept it and leave. Remy leaves shortly after, by the rear exit where her bike is parked. She bumps into a tall, thin man in an overcoat, mumbles an apology and slips on past.Susan extracts the bug from the cornflakes box with a pair of forceps. Large and unique, it appears to be just a baby. She reaches to examine it with her other hand...it bites her, latching ferociously onto the web of skin between her thumb and index finger. Startled, she pulls it off roughly, jams it down onto a pin board, and stabs a large pin into it to hold it there. She is surveying the damage to her hand when she notices the bug is secreting a large amount of frothy liquid...like the Judas Breed. She searches through her files on the creation of the Judas Breed...she finds a litmus test strip made from the secretions...compared side by side with a test strip from the new bug, they are identical.She hears glass breaking...the lamp that was shining on the baby bug has been knocked to the floor. When she investigates, she finds the bug is gone. She gets down on the floor to search for it, unaware she's being watched--by a tall, thin intruder clinging effortlessly to the ceiling above her! When she stands up, there is a sudden gust of wind and a shadow moves, and she is alone.Peter is shaken and angry when he hears of the incident. He asks Susan to cut back on the hours she spends alone in her lab at night. Her concern, however, is the Judas Breed. If it's still alive and reproducing, there's no telling what long-term impact it could have. She convinces Peter that they need to get to the bottom of this.Next day, the boys take Peter, Susan and Remy to the subway, where they found the bug. They direct them to a locked door, marked "Private", which they claim wasn't locked the day they went through it. Susan gives them a picture of an egg sack, an ootheca, and asks if they've seen anything like it. They haven't...but want to know what she'll pay if they find one. Remy hustles them away, telling them their dealing days are over. Peter and Susan pick the lock on the door, and enter what looks like an abandoned locker room. Their search is interrupted by a Manhattan Transit Authority officer, Leonard (Charles Dutton), who threatens to arrest them both. Peter convinces him he is there on official CDC business, but Leonard still insists that Peter will need to come back with the proper permits to get in and look around. Peter vows to do so, and says he will request Leonard to be assigned as their personal escort through the maintenance grid tunnels for being so obstructive.Susan waits on the subway platform while Peter and Leonard argue, leaning against one of the pillars, tapping her foot. She notices Chuy, imitating her tapping with his spoons. When she walks over to say hello and engage him in conversation, he merely remarks, "Lace-up shoes...black...Nine West," the style, color and manufacturer of the shoes she is wearing. He goes back to Manny, who operates a shoeshine stand there on the platform. She watches, interested, as Chuy continues to imitate the tapping sounds made by all the people walking by and naming the shoes each is wearing. She sees some of his wire sculptures, which are really quite good, and asks about them. He holds one up that looks like the specimen she had in her lab the night before: "Mr. Funny Shoes", he says. Susan asks Manny why Chuy doesn't go to school...Manny simply responds, "He doesn't have to: he's special."The two young boys have gone back into the subway tunnels to look for an ootheca. Transients, camped on the landings in this deserted part of the subway, warn them not to go any further. "Long John," they call after the boys, "Overcoat Slim...Don't go down there, or he'll getcha!" The boys ignore them. They find what they're looking for, in a remote part of the tunnel: an ootheca the size of a gym bag. But they find "Overcoat Slim" there, too. He catches first one, then the other...killing them quickly and mercilessly.Susan goes to talk with an old professor/mentor, Dr. Gates (F. Murray Abraham). She tells him what's happened, and asks if he thinks it's possible some of the Judas Breed bugs survived...he tells her he thinks it's likely. "But they were engineered to die," she says, plaintively. "In the lab, they all died." "Yes, Susan, but you let them out of the lab, " he replies. She asks if he still thinks it was wrong to do what she did. He tells her three years ago he would have called it unforgivable. But he adds kindly that now, with two healthy grandchildren probably alive only because of her work, it would be hypocritical for him to pass judgment.Late that night, Chuy is watching the deserted church from his bedroom window...He sees the tall, thin man go inside. Gathering up his spoons and his bent wire figures, he crawls out the window and goes down the fire escape. The door of the church is boarded up, but he's small enough to fit through the gaps. Inside, he hears Mr. Funny Shoes clicking away, and imitates him with his spoons. Mr. Funny Shoes answers, and Chuy responds happily. Then there are more clicks...a second Mr. Funny Shoes is in the room. Chuy continues to "talk" to both of them...but as they move in closer, his facial expression changes from delighted to uneasy.Next morning, Remy calls and tells Susan to meet her at a sewage treatment plant. A friend of hers who works there has found something strange. Peter reminds Susan they have the subway thing that morning; she tells Peter she'll have to meet him there after she checks on this lead. At the plant, Remy's friend produces a tray which holds the head, thorax and one set of legs of a man-size insect. Remy takes pictures of the creature with her Polaroid camera, and Susan asks her to deliver the body to Dr. Gates for dissection. Susan takes the pictures and goes to meet Peter at the subway.Manny discovers Chuy is missing. He knows of the boy's fascination for the church across the alley. He goes over there to look around, and sees one of Chuy's wire figures just inside the doorway. Armed with a Zippo lighter and an old-fashioned straight razor, he breaks into the church through a cellar door to look for Chuy.Leonard, Peter and Josh are making their way through the depths of the subway, and none of them are happy. They encounter another cluster of feces attached to the ceiling, take samples, and keep on moving. At last they find themselves on a high platform, overlooking the old Armory Station. Leonard glances down and sees a bug crawling, like the one which disappeared from Susan's lab. Startled and disgusted, he stamps on it, rendering it wuseless for study and identification. Peter is furious, and steps in close to Leonard and they both begin to argue loudly with each other. The platform beneath them collapses, and they plunge to the floor below. There seems to be no way to climb back up, so Josh, who wasn't on the platform when it fell, is sent back to the upper level to bring help.Susan, waiting on the subway platform for Peter's return, has been studying the pictures that Remy took. She notices something, and starts creasing them, accordian-folding them to show certain parts side-by-side, and she realizes that the claws on the front pair of legs resemble a man's face when fitted together. She notices suddenly that it's late, and Peter has not returned. She approaches the only other person on the platform, a tall, thin man in an overcoat, to ask if he has the correct time...it raises its head, and she sees it's a full-grown Judas adult! She turns to run, it unfurls its wings and flies after her, catching her and carrying her into the tunnel.Josh is still trying to find his way to the surface. He stumbles onto a nest of oothecas. A nearby Judas adult is roused, and comes after him...Josh is caught and killed as brutally as the two boys.Susan wakes up alone in an apparent cache of Judas victims, and tries to find her way out. She falls through a manhole, and is discovered there by Manny, still looking for Chuy. Trying to find help for her, Manny stumbles onto Leonard and Peter. Together they rescue Susan from the manhole, but they are pursued by a Judas adult. They are able to make it inside an old subway car, but the Judas adult also gets partly through the door. They force the door shut, cutting the Judas bug in half...still alive, the upper half falls into the car, and scuttles under a bench. Leonard shoots it, emptying a full clip from his gun into it. He reloads, and pulls it out from under the bench to examine it: still alive, it slashes at him with its lethal front legs, seriously injuring him and causing him to bleed profusely. Leonard empties the second clip into it, finally killing it. But the scent of the blood attracts other Judas adults...they swarm over the car, buffeting and ripping at it. Susan borrows Manny's razor and cuts into the dead adult, extracting its scent glands, and they smear the secretions over any cracks in the windows and other openings. The Judas adults withdraw from the car, apparently fooled by the scent.Leonard tells the others that they are in a Coney Island Special car that may still be operable. It might be possible for them to escape if they can restore the power. Peter volunteers to go out and check the power line. Manny volunteers to go out and throw the track switch, giving him a chance to search a little longer for Chuy. Leonard and Susan will start the car and pick up Peter and Manny at a point further down. Susan smears the remaining secretions from the two scent glands on them to increase their chances of survival.Peter is able to find and repair the circuitry. Manny finds the track switch, and miraculously, also finds Chuy nearby. Chuy has been spared by the bugs because they think he's one of them. He's unafraid of them...he even believes they are his friends...up until the point at which a Judas adult descends from the ceiling, and tears Manny to pieces.Susan and Leonard are worried about Peter and Manny...it's been too long for them to be gone. Leonard is severely crippled because of the wounds on his legs...so Susan puts on the last of the scent from the dead adult and goes out to find them. Manny is gone...nothing left but blood and his crucifix...but Chuy is still there, terrified after witnessing the death of his father. Susan picks up the crucifix, throws the track switch and takes Chuy with her to hunt for Peter.Peter has turned on the power, and the lights come on in the subway car. Leonard starts it up, but it only moves a few feet and lurches to a standstill. Peter returns to the car, but Leonard won't let him in. His leg wounds have begun to bleed again, and there is no more bug scent to mask the smell. The Judas adults are beginning to come back, Leonard is doomed. Peter reluctantly leaves him to go look for Susan. Leonard leaves the car, and heads down the track, to decoy the bugs away from the others. His death follows swiftly, but helps the others to escape.The reunion of Peter, Susan and Chuy is brief. Peter persuades Susan to take Chuy and escape without him...he wants to try and wipe out the colony while he's here. If he fails, Susan will have to tell authorities what's happened and find another way to destroy them. He helps them into a dumb waiter/service elevator, and sends them up to the next level. The breeding male crashes into the chamber at that moment, and Peter is forced to run through a tiny access tunnel into another large chamber. He slams the door behind him and looks around to see that he is in the nursery of the colony, surrounded by thousands of oothecas. The chamber is half flooded with water, and there are gas pipes and valves all around. He opens several, venting gas into the chamber. The door bursts open, a couple of Judas adults swarm in. With a piece of scrap metal he strikes the metal grid to create a spark before they can reach him. On the third blow a spark ignites the gas, the chamber explodes in flame and Peter plunges into the water.Susan and Chuy have gotten out of the elevator, and they're standing in a track tunnel when they are knocked down by the explosion. Before they can recover, the breeding male, who has climbed up the elevator shaft, crashes into the tunnel at a point between them. He ignores Susan and turns to Chuy, intent on killing the boy. Susan slashes her palm with Manny's crucifix and holds it up so the male can smell the blood. The male turns and chases her instead. She hears a train coming, and runs directly toward it...at the last minute she jigs sharply to the side, and the train hits the male head on. Badly damaged, he clings on to the train, slipping partly underneath. As parts of him touch the ground they are torn away by the velocity, and at last, completely torn and dismembered, he dies. Susan collects Chuy and they make their way up to the street.Later, they huddle in blankets on a bench outside the subway entrance. Dr. Gates approaches Susan, and tells her the fire department found no trace of the colony...that nothing could have survived the fire. "How about one of us?" she asks, hopelessly. He touches her hand, and goes back to talk to the firemen. Chuy watches as firefighters evacuate people from the subway. A tall man in a blanket is climbing slowly up the stairs. Susan joins Chuy at the top of the stairs, and Chuy comments with satisfaction in his voice, "Mountain boots, size ten". The man looks up and it is Peter. He climbs up the last few steps to them, opens his arms, and embraces them both.
Guillermo del Toro
Director(s)
Donald A. Wollheim
Matthew Robbins
Guillermo del Toro
Matthew Robbins
Guillermo del Toro
Writer(s)
Ole Bornedal
producer
Stuart Cornfeld
co-executive producer
Cary Granat
co-producer
Clark Henderson
associate producer
Michael Phillips
executive producer
Richard Potter
co-producer
B.J. Rack
producer
Andrew Rona
co-producer
Scott Shiffman
co-producer
Bob Weinstein
producer
Harvey Weinstein
co-executive producer
Michael Zoumas
co-producer
Producer(s)
Marco Beltrami
Composer(s)
Dr. Susan Tyler
Mira Sorvino
Dr. Peter Mann
Jeremy Northam
Chuy
Alexander Goodwin
Manny
Giancarlo Giannini
Leonard
Charles S. Dutton
Josh
Josh Brolin
Remy
Alix Koromzay
Dr. Gates
F. Murray Abraham
Ricky
James Costa
Davis
Javon Barnwell
Jeremy
Norman Reedus
Preacher
Pak-Kwong Ho
Yang (as Glen Bang)
Glenn Bang
Chinese Woman
Margaret Ma
Bag Lady
Warna Fisher
Skeletal Bum
Alan Argue
Homeless Man
Charles Hayter
Workman
Julian Richings
Subway Repairman
James Kidnie
Homeless Woman
Eve English
Long John #1
Bill Lasovich
Long John #2
Doug Jones
Long John #3
Roger Clown
Bystander SWAT arrival (uncredited)
Marian Caparrós
Subway Passenger (uncredited)
Thomas Lundy
Homeless (uncredited)
Napo
Swat Team Leader (uncredited)
Rocco Salata
Director(s)
Matthew Robbins
Guillermo del Toro
Matthew Robbins
Guillermo del Toro
Writer(s)
producer
Stuart Cornfeld
co-executive producer
Cary Granat
co-producer
Clark Henderson
associate producer
Michael Phillips
executive producer
Richard Potter
co-producer
B.J. Rack
producer
Andrew Rona
co-producer
Scott Shiffman
co-producer
Bob Weinstein
producer
Harvey Weinstein
co-executive producer
Michael Zoumas
co-producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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