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Weaver lands first starring role in TV series -
7 March 2012
-Sigourney Weaver is heading to TV in a new political drama series.-The Avatar actress has won the lead role in Political Animals, which focuses on a former First Lady and her family after her time in the White House and her marriage comes to an end.- It will be the firs
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Weaver: 'All films will eventually be 3D' -
20 January 2012
-Sigourney Weaver is convinced 2D films will soon be banished to the history books in the same way as black and white movies.-The Alien actress was part of the highest-grossing movie of all time, James Cameron's Avatar, which gave 3D technology a huge boost, and Weaver is
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Weaver: 'Ghostbusters 3 won't happen without Murray' -
19 September 2011
-The future of the third Ghostbusters movie hangs in the balance again - Sigourney Weaver insists the sequel won't start shooting if Bill Murray doesn't agree to be part of it.-The actress' comments come just a month after co-star Dan Aykroyd insisted filming would begin
Sigourney Weaver - what members say
review by JediSi from Kent
If there's something strange.....in your neighbourhood 9 November 2007
review by A customer from London
something he ate? 14 September 2003
review by from Sheffield, England
There's never been so much fun in space! 26 February 2004
Sigourney Weaver - filmography
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Rampart - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Sigourney Weaver, Robin Wright
Director: Oren Moverman
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From a screenplay by James Ellroy ("L.A. Confidential") and director Oren Moverman (Oscar-nominated "The Messenger"), comes Rampart. Veteran police officer Dave Brown (Woody Harrelson), dedicated to doing "the people's dirty work" and asserting his own code of justice, is the last of the renegade ..read more »
 
55%
from 24 members
Due for release on 2nd July 2012
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Cedar Rapids - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, John C. Reilly, Alia Shawkat
Director: Miguel Arteta
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A childlike insurance salesman discovers his inner grown-up in this comedy from director Miguel Arteta and producer Alexander Payne. Tim Lippe (Ed Helms) sells insurance for a living. He's passionate about his career, so when the top salesman at the company dies on the eve of a big industry ..read more »
71%
from 28 members
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Rampart
(2011)
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Sigourney Weaver, Robin Wright
Director: Oren Moverman
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From a screenplay by James Ellroy ("L.A. Confidential") and director Oren Moverman (Oscar-nominated "The Messenger"), comes Rampart. Veteran police officer Dave Brown (Woody Harrelson), dedicated to doing "the people's dirty work" and asserting his own code of justice, is the last of the renegade ..read more »
62%
from 165 members
Due for release on 2nd July 2012
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Cedar Rapids
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, John C. Reilly, Alia Shawkat
Director: Miguel Arteta
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Tim Lippe (Helms) was the guy people always thought would go places but then he just ... didn't. He's been living in über-sleepy Brown Valley, Wisconsin his whole life, still "pre-engaged" to his 7th grade teacher Millie Vanderhei (Weaver), while selling insurance to protect other people's dreams. ..read more »
59%
from 4,268 members
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Crazy on the Outside
(2010)
Starring: Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Ray Liotta
Director: Tim Allen
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Watch now: Unavailable
Tommy is fresh out of prison and ready for a second chance in life. But, he finds out that life outside his prison cell is much more complicated than he was expecting, thanks especially to his eccentric sister and the entourage of crazy people who seem to find him wherever he goes.
63%
from 21 members
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Paul - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Seth Rogen, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost
Director: Greg Mottola
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Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) reunite for the comedy adventure Paul as two sci-fi geeks whose pilgrimage takes them to America's UFO heartland. While there, they accidentally meet an alien who brings them on an insane road trip that alters their universe forever.
For the ..read more »
71%
from 490 members
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Paul
(2010)
Starring: Seth Rogen, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost
Director: Greg Mottola
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Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) reunite for the comedy adventure Paul as two sci-fi geeks whose pilgrimage takes them to America's UFO heartland. While there, they accidentally meet an alien who brings them on an insane road trip that alters their universe forever.
For the ..read more »
68%
from 1,882 member
Not available for rental
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You Again
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Kristen Bell, Sigourney Weaver, Jamie Lee Curtis
Director: Andy Fickman
Certificate: 
Watch now: Unavailable
You Again, the non-stop laugh fest, is pure fun that features an all-star cast with comedy pedigrees - including Kristen Bell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sigourney Weaver and the always outrageous Betty White. For Marnie (Bell), high school was a horror movie, and her brother's wedding is the sequel when ..read more »
61%
from 5,940 members
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Avatar - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez
Director: James Cameron
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The future. Paraplegic war hero, Jake, is taken against his will to the planet of Pandora - a world inhabited by a race of humanoids called The Na'vi. Forced to exploit the valuable resources of the local population, Jake decides to turn against his human companions, and join the planet's people in ..read more »
82%
from 21,088 members
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Avatar
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez
Director: James Cameron
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The future. Paraplegic war hero, Jake, is taken against his will to the planet of Pandora - a world inhabited by a race of humanoids called The Na'vi. Forced to exploit the valuable resources of the local population, Jake decides to turn against his human companions, and join the planet's people in ..read more »
80%
from 63,288 members
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Vantage Point
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker
Director: Pete Travis
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An attempt on the life of the president reveals a much larger conspiracy in this thriller starring Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, and Forest Whitaker. VANTAGE POINT takes the point of view of five witnesses and shows them all to reveal the truth.
69%
from 62,370 members
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Baby Mama
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Sigourney Weaver
Director: Michael McCullers
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Successful and single businesswoman Kate Holbrook has long put her career ahead of a personal life. Now 37, she's finally determined to have a kid on her own. But her plan is thrown a curve ball after she discovers she has only a million-to-one chance of getting pregnant. Undaunted, the driven Kate ..read more »
62%
from 8,451 members
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Baby Mama - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Tina Fey, Greg Kinnear, Sigourney Weaver
Director: Michael McCullers
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Tina Fey and Amy Poehler made for a dynamic duo when they hosted Weekend Update on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, and the pair reunites for this comedy. Fey plays a career-driven single woman who wants a baby, so she hires her complete opposite (Poehler) to be the surrogate mother for her child.
59%
from 1,150 member
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Vantage Point - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Matthew Fox, Sigourney Weaver, Forest Whitaker
Director: Pete Travis
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A presidential assassination attempt is told from multiple points of view in Pete Travis' directorial debut, VANTAGE POINT. U.S. president Ashton (William Hurt) is in Salamanca, Spain, to announce plans for a major global summit on terrorism. But as he stands behind the podium in front of an ..read more »
68%
from 9,350 members
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The Girl in the Park
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Kate Bosworth, Alessandro Nivola
Director: David Auburn
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A socially isolated woman still haunted by the disappearance of her three-year-old daughter 15 years ago obsesses over the prospect that a troubled young woman whom she has recently befriended may in fact be her long-lost daughter in The Lake House director/screenwriter David Auburn's affecting ..read more »
56%
from 3,708 members
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Infamous
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Daniel Craig, Gwyneth Paltrow
Director: Douglas McGrath
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Watch now: £2.49
1959 Manhattan was a party, and none of the glitterati glittered brighter than Truman Capote. Then he saw a story in The New York Times: "Wealthy Farmer, 3 of Family Slain," and the party ended for Capote. He plunged into the murder case that inspired his great "nonfiction novel" In Cold Blood and ..read more »
64%
from 9,760 members
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The Village
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
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Watch now: Unavailable
M. Night Shyamalan's THE VILLAGE finds the renowned writer-director crafting a suspenseful story of a small community whose inhabitants are plagued by fear of the unknown forest that surrounds them. For years, they have kept a truce with mysterious creatures in the woods by vowing never to breach a ..read more »
58%
from 61,534 members
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Imaginary Heroes
(2004)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Suzanne Santo, Emile Hirsch
Director: Daniel Harris
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Teenaged son Tim views his life as a bad dream. His father Ben tunes out and treats his wife and children like strangers. His mother Sandy sharpens her tongue with sarcasm and dulls her senses with pot while struggling to conceal a secret that threatens to ruin them all...
56%
from 2,532 members
Not currently released
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Holes
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Jon Voight, Sigourney Weaver, Patricia Arquette
Director: Andrew Davis
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Louis Sachar's acclaimed teen adventure novel comes to dazzling life with this wildly entertaining adaptation. Stanley Yelnats (Shia LaBeouf) is an unassuming adolescent whose family has been cursed for generations. One day, after Stanley is falsely accused of stealing a pair of shoes, he is ..read more »
67%
from 14,202 members
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Tadpole
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Aaron Stanford, Sigourney Weaver, John Ritter
Director: Gary Winick
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Fifteen-year-old Prep student Oscar Grubman (Aaron Stanford) feels that girls his own age haven't lived enough, which is why he's coming home to Manhattan's Upper East Side for Thanksgiving to profess his love to his stepmother, Eve (Sigourney Weaver)--whose marriage to his professor father (John ..read more »
53%
from 1,048 member
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Heartbreakers
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ray Liotta
Director: David Mirkin
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HEARTBREAKERS follows Max (Sigourney Weaver) and Page (Jennifer Love Hewitt), a mother and daughter who are expert grifters, through one after another of their perfectly executed scams. Max gets wealthy men to fall in love with her and marry her, then Page seduces them, setting up grounds for Max ..read more »
64%
from 4,171 members
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Company Man
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Alan Cumming, Sigourney Weaver, Douglas McGrath
Director: Peter Askin, Douglas McGrath
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COMPANY MAN, cowritten and codirected by Douglas McGrath (EMMA) and Peter Askin, is an AUSTIN POWERS meets THE PINK PANTHER screwball farce about the 1959 Cuban revolution. Allen Quimp (McGrath) is a bumbling, gee-whiz high school teacher in 1950s Connecticut who believes grammar instruction is his ..read more »
41%
from 227 members
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Galaxy Quest - Blu-ray
(1999)
Starring: Missi Pyle, Robin Sachs, Tim Allen
Director: Dean Parisot
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GALAXY QUEST is a satirical comedy that pokes fun at the influence science fiction shows such as STAR TREK have had on their audience. The cast members of the cult sci-fi television series GALAXY QUEST now earn their livings appearing at conventions and grand openings, led by their bomastic captain ..read more »
75%
from 1,129 member
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A Map Of The World
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Chloe Sevigny, David Strathairn, Arliss Howard
Director: Scott Elliott
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A MAP OF THE WORLD is a brilliant adaptation of the popular novel by Jane Hamilton, concerning the lives of several small-town Wisconsin inhabitants. When a child drowns in her care, school nurse Alice Goodwin (Sigourney Weaver) crumbles with guilt. The little girl's mother, Theresa Collins (..read more »
52%
from 855 members
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Galaxy Quest
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Missi Pyle, Robin Sachs, Tim Allen
Director: Dean Parisot
Certificate:
GALAXY QUEST is a satirical comedy that pokes fun at the influence science fiction shows such as STAR TREK have had on their audience. The cast members of the cult sci-fi television series GALAXY QUEST now earn their livings appearing at conventions and grand openings, led by their bomastic captain ..read more »
69%
from 9,489 members
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Alien Resurrection
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Ron Perlman
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
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Two hundred years after Ripley, a group of scientists clone her and the parasitic alien... Anxious to test out their new weapon the scientists abduct a crew.... The alien escapes and takes control of the spacecraft with only 'Ripley' and a team of smugglers standing between it and Earth.
63%
from 20,307 members
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The Ice Storm
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Henry Czerny, Adam Hann-Byrd, Tobey Maguire
Director: Ang Lee
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It is Thanksgiving 1973, and the Carvers and the Hoods are two prototypical suburban families seemingly living the good life in New Canaan, Connecticut. Behind their New Age philosophies and polyester fashions, however, lies deep discontent. One husband carries on an unsatisfying affair with the ..read more »
64%
from 8,835 members
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Alien Resurrection - Blu-ray
(1997)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Ron Perlman
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Certificate:
Two hundred years after Ripley, a group of scientists clone her and the parasitic alien... Anxious to test out their new weapon the scientists abduct a crew.... The alien escapes and takes control of the spacecraft with only 'Ripley' and a team of smugglers standing between it and Earth.
65%
from 61 members
Not available for rental
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Snow White - A Tale Of Terror
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Sam Neill, Gil Bellows
Director: Michael Cohn
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From its dark and complex themes to its archetypal imagery, the Grimm fable of the innocent and beautiful Snow White has captured readers for centuries, but it has not often been given accurate treatment on film. SNOW WHITE: A TALE OF TERROR attempts to do this with magnificent performances, ..read more »
59%
from 1,132 member
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Copycat
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Holly Hunter, Dermot Mulroney
Director: Jon Amiel
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A psychopath is copying the crimes of renowned serial killers such as Son of Sam and the Boston Strangler, and the detective on the case turns to a forensic psychologist who specializes in the field. Unfortunately, the doctor has become a paranoid agoraphobic as the result of an earlier assault at ..read more »
66%
from 4,585 members
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Jeffrey
(1995)
Starring: Steven Weber, Patrick Stewart, Michael T. Weiss
Director: Christopher Ashley
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In this surprising, buoyant comedy, a young, gay actor/waiter finds "Mr. Right" after becoming celibate in the age of AIDS. Struggling with the notion of commitment after discovering his perfect man is HIV-positive, he relies on his best friend (Patrick Stewart as an interior decorator), a self-..read more »
57%
from 900 members
Currently unavailable
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Dave
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella
Director: Ivan Reitman
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A presidential look-alike finds himself in the oval office "filling in" for the president who has fallen ill. Lacking the political savvy of the real president, "Dave" proceeds to govern the country with a refreshingly straight-forward approach. Academy Award Nominations: Best (Original) Screenplay.
67%
from 3,895 members
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Alien 3
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance
Director: David Fincher
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Ripley finds herself the sole survivor of another alien attack. This time she finds herself on Fiorina 161, a penal colony... It's not long before Ripley realises that her doomed escape pod was contaminated with the alien. Now she is imprisoned on a planet where weapons are unavailable....
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from 23,746 members
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Alien 3 - Blu-ray
(1992)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance
Director: David Fincher
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Ripley finds herself the sole survivor of another alien attack. This time she finds herself on Fiorina 161, a penal colony... It's not long before Ripley realises that her doomed escape pod was contaminated with the alien. Now she is imprisoned on a planet where weapons are unavailable....
71%
from 73 members
Not available for rental
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Ghostbusters 2
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver
Director: Ivan Reitman
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The band of ghost busters are back to save the universe. Having been put out of commission due to a judicial court order, the fearless four pull out all psychic stops to put an end to a demonic river of slime and rescue Dana Barrett (Sigourney Weaver) and her child. In order to achieve this, they ..read more »
67%
from 17,286 members
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Working Girl
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Harrison Ford, Melanie Griffith
Director: Mike Nichols
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Unhappy with her job and her loser boyfriend, Melanie Griffith takes a secretarial post at a major Wall Street firm. Her boss is Sigourney Weaver, an outwardly affable yuppie whose grinning visage hides a wicked and larcenous propensity for exploiting the ideas of her employees. While Weaver is ..read more »
70%
from 4,710 members
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Gorillas In The Mist
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown, Julie Harris
Director: Michael Apted
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Based on anthropologist Dian Fossey's autobiography, and an article by Harold T. P. Hayes, GORILLAS IN THE MIST is a portrait of the determined woman who will do anything to save the mountain gorillas that she studies, and for whose well-being she has a passionate commitment. In the process, she ..read more »
71%
from 3,784 members
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Aliens - Blu-ray
(1986)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn
Director: James Cameron
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Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), the sole survivor from the original ALIEN, is awakened after 57 years of drifting through space, her stories disbelieved by Company executives who tell her that the alien's planet is now inhabited and colonized. When contact is suddenly lost with the colonists, Ripley ..read more »
92%
from 109 members
Not available for rental
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Aliens
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Lance Henriksen, Al Matthews, Bill Paxton
Director: James Cameron
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Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), the sole survivor from the original ALIEN, is awakened after 57 years of drifting through space, her stories disbelieved by Company executives who tell her that the alien's planet is now inhabited and colonized. When contact is suddenly lost with the colonists, Ripley ..read more »
79%
from 46,281 members
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Ghostbusters - Blu-ray
(1984)
Starring: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver
Director: Ivan Reitman
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When Dr. Peter Venkman (Bill Murrary) and his Columbia University colleagues (Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson) are kicked out of their prestigious academic posts, they start a private practice as professional ghost-catchers. Although the three parascientists are idle for awhile, their ..read more »
81%
from 3,206 members
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Ghostbusters
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver
Director: Ivan Reitman
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Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson star as a quartet of Manhattan-based paranormal investigators. When their government grants run out, the former three go into business as The Ghostbusters, later hiring Hudson on. Armed with electronic paraphernalia, the team is spectacularly ..read more »
74%
from 38,951 members
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Alien
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt
Director: Ridley Scott
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Director Ridley Scott's breakthough film, an immensely successful blend of horror and science fiction, is a classic in both genres and spawned a host of sequels and imitators. Starring Sigourney Weaver as warrant officer Ellen Ripley, ALIEN focuses on the crew of the space cargo ship Nostromo, ..read more »
78%
from 56,182 members
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Alien - Blu-ray
(1979)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt
Director: Ridley Scott
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Director Ridley Scott's breakthough film, an immensely successful blend of horror and science fiction, is a classic in both genres and spawned a host of sequels and imitators. Starring Sigourney Weaver as warrant officer Ellen Ripley, ALIEN focuses on the crew of the space cargo ship Nostromo, ..read more »
90%
from 123 members
Not available for rental
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Search For The Afghan Girl
on DVD
Starring: Sigourney Weaver
Director: none
Certificate: 
A documentary on the quest for the Afghan girl whose iconic picture became the symbol of the National Geographic magazine. Narrated by Sigourney Weaver.
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from 13 members
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Sigourney Weaver facts
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...ly spirits, conjured up by a long dead Babylonian demon and 'channeled' through Sigourney Weaver and nerd Rick Moranis. The climax is a glorious send up of every Godzilla movie...
