Race to Witch Mountain (2009) on Netflix
PG20091h 38mActionAdventureFamily
Las Vegas cab driver Jack Bruno finds two teenagers in his back seat. Sara and Seth offer him $15,000 to drive them outside the city, while government agents hunt for the pair.
- Netflix3.5/5
- IMDb5.7/1066,871 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes42%
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Plot summary
An alien spacecraft crashes near Searchlight, Nevada, and a secret Defense Department unit called Project Moon Dust, led by Henry Burke, seizes it and hunts for whoever was aboard. Jack Bruno, a Las Vegas taxi driver who once chauffeured for the mob, picks up Dr. Alex Friedman, an astrophysicist in town to lecture at a UFO convention. After two thugs working for mob boss Andrew Wolfe press him to take a job, Jack finds teenagers Sara and Seth in his cab, offering $15,000 for a drive to a destination outside the city. Burke's agents trace the pair, and Jack, mistaking them for more mob men, tries to outrun them. Seth's power to alter his molecular density and Sara's telepathy and telekinesis help the group escape.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Race to Witch Mountain (2009)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The alien assassin Siphon was conceived by the design team who created the looks for the creatures in Alien vs. Predator, and was introduced as a new element in this remake.
- Director Andy Fickman cast AnnaSophia Robb as the alien Sara after seeing her play Leslie Burke in Bridge to Terabithia.
- The convention center in Pomona, California was converted into the film's UFO Expo 9, and the interior of Witch Mountain was designed using photographs taken on a tour of NORAD's Cheyenne Mountain Complex.
- Race to Witch Mountain became the first Disney film in 2009 to open at number one, grossing $24.4 million.
