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T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous is a american film of genre Adventure directed by Brett Leonard released in USA on 23 october 1998 with Peter Horton
T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous (1998)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 23 october 1998
Length 45minutes
Directed by Brett Leonard
OriginUSA
Genres Adventure
Rating48%
T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous is a 1998 American edutainment adventure film shot for the IMAX 3D format. The film is directed by Brett Leonard, renowned for his computer-generated imagery special effects productions. Executive producer/co-writer Andrew Gellis and producers Antoine Compin and Charis Horton also make up the production team. Liz Stauber and Peter Horton star, alongside Kari Coleman, Tuck Milligan, and Laurie Murdoch. The film is among the few IMAX films that are considered "pure entertainment", though it still is considered rather educational by the mainstream audience.
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The plot revolves around 16-year-old Ally Hayden (Liz Stauber), the daughter of Dr. Donald Hayden (Peter Horton), a world-famous paleontologist and museum curator. She loves dinosaurs and longs to be able to accompany him to one of the nearby paleontological digs, but her father thinks this is too dangerous and she has to settle for giving museum tours instead.Actors
Peter Horton
(Dr. Donald Hayden)
Liz Stauber
(Ally Hayden)
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