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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) - Philip Kaufman

This film is another interpretation of  The Body Snatchers  from 1955. A novel written by Jack Finney. And a remake of  Invasion of the Body Snatchers  from 1956. Though the story is expanded in  Invasion '78  and it gives you a larger scope of just how far the pods must reach. It has a more graphic and intense look and feel. It has a much larger political view and explores that side of the film a lot more. You get the feeling that this outbreak is on a much larger scale.  The film stars Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright, and even Leonard Nimoy. As in the usual story line, pod-plants from outer space descend on Earth and make clones of all humans that come in contact with them. Then when that human sleeps their clones absorb (?) them and kill them.  These clones are mostly emotionless. However, they look and sound just like everyone else. In fact the copy is just like you in every-way, except...