Superman: The Movie details
Movie Details:
- Director: Richard Donner
- Produced By: Warner Brothers
- Year: 1978
- Run Time: 150 minutes
- Country: UK, USA
- Language: English
- Set in: Krypton
- MPAA Rating: PG
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Action, Science Fiction
- Filmed In: Color
- Alternate Titles: Superman
- Key Cast: Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper, Glenn Ford, Trevor Howard, Full Credits
- Awards: Best Editing (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie 1978), Best Original Score (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie 1978), Best Original Score (Hollywood Foreign Press Association 1978), Full Awards
Richard Donner's big-budget blockbuster Superman: The Movie is an immensely entertaining recounting of the origin of the famous comic book character. Opening on Krypton (where Marlon Brando plays Superman's father), the film follows the Man of Steel (Christopher Reeve) as he's sent to Earth where he develops his alter-ego Clark Kent and is raised by a Midwestern family. In no time, the movie has run through his teenage years, and Clark gets a job at the Daily Planet, where he is a news reporter. It's there that he falls in love with Lois Lane (Margot Kidder), who is already in love with Superman. But the love story is quickly sidetracked once the villainous Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman) launches a diabolical plan to conquer the world and kill Superman. Superman: The Movie is filled with action, special effects and a surprising amount of humor. by Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide
Keywords:
- adoption
- alien [not human]
- criminal
- disguise
- family
- newspaper
- reporter
- Superhero
- secret-identity
- world-domination
Themes:
- Assumed Identities
- Heroic Mission
- Righting the Wronged
