War Of The Worlds: Movie Analysis

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War of the Worlds is a 2005 American science fiction disaster film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Josh Friedman and David Koepp, adapting the novel of the same title by H. G. Wells. It stars Tom Cruise as Ray Ferrier, a divorced dock worker estranged from his children (Dakota Fanning and Justin Chatwin) and living separately from them. As his former wife drops their children off for him to look after for a few days, the planet is attacked by aliens that come up out of the ground driving Tripods and as Earth's armed forces are defeated, Ray tries to protect his children and flee to Boston to rejoin his former wife.

The film was shot in 73 days, using five different sound stages as well as locations in California, Connecticut, New

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