Planet of the Apes (2001)

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Studio: 20th Century Fox Studio: 20th Century Fox

Rating: PG-13

Release Date: Jul 27, 2001

Running Time: 120 mins. (V)

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Clarke Duncan, Paul Giamatti, Estella Warren, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, David Warner, Kris Kristofferson, Erick Avari

director: Tim Burton, Andy Armstrong

Planet of the Apes

American pilot Leo Davidson finds himself stranded in an upside-down world--a brutal, primal place where intelligent apes are in charge and humans scavenge for subsistence, hunted and enslaved by the tyrannical primates. When he attracts the attention of the politically well-connected ape Ari, a human rights activist, he begins to challenge the status quo, becoming a catalyst for revolutionary social change.

Planet of the Apes is Tim Burton's fresh ''re-imagining'' of the 1968 time-honored cult classic that while new, stirs haunting echoes of the original. The apes are fierce and ferocious, and the humans face extinction.

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Captain Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) ignores his commander's orders and leaves his space station in an exploration vehicle to find his missing chimp pilot protege, Pericles. Davidson ends up crash-landing on a distant planet, in a distant future. On this planet, however,…