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Directed by | John Schultz |
Produced by | Barry Josephson |
Written by |
Mark Burton Adam F. Goldberg |
Starring |
Carter Jenkins Austin Butler Ashley Boettcher Ashley Tisdale Henri Young Regan Young Josh Peck J. K. Simmons Kari Wahlgren Thomas Haden Church |
Music by | John Debney |
Cinematography | Don Burgess |
Edited by | John Pace |
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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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86 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $45 million |
Box office | $57.9 million |
Aliens in the Attic is a 2009 American family science fiction comedy film produced by 20th Century Fox and Regency Enterprises and starring Carter Jenkins, Austin Butler, Ashley Tisdale, Henri Young, Regan Young, Josh Peck, J. K. Simmons, Kari Wahlgren, and Thomas Haden Church. The plot revolves around the children in the Pearson family having to defend their vacation house against a group of aliens planning an invasion of Earth until one of the aliens betrayed them and join the Pearson children in battle. The film was previously titled They Came from Upstairs, which is instead used as the film's tag line. A video game of the same name was released as well. Aliens in the Attic received mixed to negative reviews from film critics but was a minor box office success. Rotten Tomatoes gave it a rating of 31/100%. The film was directed by John Schultz.
A meteor shower rockets through open space. Four glowing pods are seen hiding behind the meteor shower. Suddenly the meteor shower makes a hard right and heads towards a distant planet Earth.
In a Chicago suburb, Stuart Pearson (Kevin Nealon) and his wife Nina (Gillian Vigman) head a family that includes 7-year-old Hannah (Ashley Boettcher), 17-year-old hormonal sister Bethany (Ashley Tisdale), who has just come back from a secret outing with her boyfriend Ricky Dillman (Robert Hoffman), and 15-year-old techno-geek Tom (Carter Jenkins) whose high school grades are low. Deciding the family needs some good old-fashioned togetherness, Stuart takes them to a holiday home in the middle of nowhere. Joining them is Nathan "Nate" Pearson (Andy Richter), his 14-year-old son Jake (Austin Butler), Nana Rose (Doris Roberts), and identical 12-year-old twins Art (Henri Young) and Lee (Regan Young). Ricky also arrives unexpectedly and talks his way into staying overnight, by giving them the impression that his car has broken down and needs to be repaired so he can spend time with Bethany, plus saying he is 18 years old.