1978 - THE INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS

P: Robert H. Solo
Dir: Phihlip Kaufman
Writer of the novel : Jack Finney

Matthew Bennell Donald Sutherland
Elizabeth Driscoll: Brooke Adams
Jack Bellicec: Jeff Goldblum
Dr. David Kibner: Leonard Nimoy
Nancy Bellicec: Veronica Cartwright

Seeds are traveling through space and enter the earth’s atmosphere. On her way home from work Elisabeth Driscoll finds an unusual flower’s bud. She wants to tell he boyfriend, who gives an unusual disinterested impression. His behavior seems to have changed. Even in the morning he behaves totally differently to what he used to do. Then he is cleaning up something besides his bed and brings it to the bin outside. When they meet again after work his strange behavior goes on. Elisabeth talks to Matthew, a friend of hers. Matthew suggest she’d visit the psychiatrist Dr. Kibner. In the morning Matthew takes washing to the laundry. The owner, Mr. Teng, tells him confidentially that his wife has changed so very much, she’s not herself. The same problem as Elisabeth had with her friend. Dr. Kibner is signing his latest books as Elisabeth and Matthew enter. They witness the conversation Dr. Kibner has with a couple. The woman is worried to tears about the changes going on with her husband, Dr. Kibner comforting her that all will be fine. Later on they are walking with Dr. Kibner who’s confirming repeated reports of people who have changed drastically. When Jack Bellicec, a friend of Matthew, joins them, Kibner grabs him and pushes him against a wall. They wonder about this strange behavior. Dr. Kibner then tries to comfort Elisabeth and Matthew goes with Jack to his business, the Bellicec Mud Baths where Jack wants to take a nap. Nancy, his wife, later discovers a body on one of the beds in the steamroom. She calls Jack and Matthew and all of them stare at the creature which somehow resembles Jack. Both do not notice Dr. Kibner standing in a corner watching them. Matthew phones Elisabeth. The phone call is interrupted soon and he rushes over to her. When the creature’s eyes open and the nose begins to bleed the same way Jack’s nose has bled, both run away in horror, bumping into Dr. Kibner.   

He promised to look at the body, but it is gone. An open window is seen and there is banging at the door. Matthew is shocked about his discovery: Elisabeth and a body looking like Elisabeth’s. They call the police and all go to Elisabeth’s apartment. Matthew wakes Elisabeth and taker her to his apartment. The police asks whether Geoffrey, Elisabeth’s friend, wants to put charges against Matthew for breaking into the apartment, but Dr. Kibner avoids it by assuring that everything is o. k. He then leaves, entering the police car where Geoffrey and the policeman are waiting. “The sooner, the better”, he says. The attempts of the others, phoning the mayor, analyzing buds a. o. fail. All are meeting again in Matthew’s apartment. Dr. Kibner gives Elisabeth some pills to help her sleep. 

Nancy suddenly awakes and notices the building of identically shapes of the person sleeping. She wakes Matthew who destroys the second forms. Outside in the streets they discovers that most people are already duplicates only. They can escape them. In scientist office they try to develop a plan to fight the plant’s taking over of human bodies. Dr. Kibner, Jack and Geoffrey enter. First Matthew thinks they come to help until he realizes that Dr. Kibner tries to make them all fall into sleep. Dr. Kibner tries to convince them that there will be no hate in the new from – and no love. In the fight Jack is killed and Dr. Kibner is pushed and locked into a freezer. Nancy tells Matthew how to fool the transformed “people” by pretending to be emotionless. Matthew finds a factory where the pots multiply and tries to destroy it, but has to escape. Next morning the only not transformed person, Nancy, is wondering whether Matthew is pretending to be transformed because of the others or he is not.