PLANET OF THE APES

Year: 2001
USA & UK: Twentieth Century Fox
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Clarke Duncan, Kris Kristofferson, Estella Warren, Paul Giamatti, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Erick Avari, Luke Eberl, Evan Dexter Parke, Freda Foh Shen, David Warner, Glenn Shadix, Lisa Marie
Director: Tim Burton
Country: USA
UK: 119 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for some sequences of action/violence
UK Certificate: 12 contains moderate violence
USA Release Date: 27 July 2001
UK Release Date: 17 August 2001







Synopsis

In the year 2029, astronaut Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) boards a pod cruiser on a space station for a "routine" reconnaissance mission. But an abrupt detour through a space time wormhole lands him on a strange planet where talking apes rule over the human race.

With the help of a sympathetic chimpanzee activist named Ari (Helena Bonham-Carter) and a small band of human rebels, Leo leads the effort to evade the advancing Gorilla Army led by General Thade (Tim Roth) and his most trusted warrior, Attar (Michael Clarke Duncan).

Now the race is on to reach a sacred temple within the planet's forbidden zone to discover the shocking secrets of mankind's past - and the key to it's future.