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Related: About this forumAlien.......yikes is Sigourney Weaver a baby in this movie.....😳 😳 😳
1979 release. Forgot how much I really liked this movie. so well done, acted, story line, just a fantastic movie.
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Alien.......yikes is Sigourney Weaver a baby in this movie.....😳 😳 😳 (Original Post)
a kennedy
May 2021
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I saw it at the theater, and a mom a few rows in front of me brought her young son
Martin Eden
Dec 2021
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bamagal62
(3,709 posts)1. I find her one of the most annoying actresses out there.
If I see shes in a movie I change the channel. I have no idea why.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,771 posts)2. Well, she may be one of the luckiest
Veronica Cartwright was originally cast as Ripley. She ended up having to settle for a supporting role.
bamagal62
(3,709 posts)3. No doubt.
Martin Eden
(13,614 posts)4. I saw it at the theater, and a mom a few rows in front of me brought her young son
Maybe 4 years old, he screamed in terror when the alien burst out of John Hurt's chest. He kept crying "Mommy I wanna go home, Mommy I wanna go home," but she kept him there and he eventually whimpered into silence.
I often wondered if that poor little boy suffered lasting trauma.
As I recall, this movie cam out not long after E.T. and some people didn't realize it was a horror movie.