Super 8 (Blu-ray + DVD Combo) (2011)

Editor's Note Writer/director J.J. Abrams teams with producer Steven Spielberg for this period sci-fi thriller set in the late '70s, and centering on a mysterious train crash in a small Ohio town. Summer, 1979: a group of young friends are filming a Super-8 movie when a pickup truck derails a speeding train. When the locals start to disappear and even the inquisitive deputy can't come up with answers, suspicions emerge that the incident was anything but an accident. As the truth finally begins emerge, no one is prepared to learn what now stalks the unsuspecting citizens of this once quiet community. Kyle Chandler and Elle Fanning star.

	Ron Eldard
	Noah Emmerich
	Elle Fanning
	Joel Courtney
	Kyle Chandler
	Gabriel Basso
	Riley Griffiths - Co-Star
	Ryan Lee - Co-Star
	Thomas F. Duffy - Co-Star
	Jade Griffiths - Co-Star
	Andrew Miller - Co-Star
	Jakob Miller - Co-Star
	Ben Gavin - Co-Star
	Katherine Yerves - Co-Star
	Koa Melvin - Co-Star
	Beau Knapp - Co-Star
	Robert B. Quiroz - Co-Star
	Jonathan Dixon - Co-Star
	Marco Sanchez - Co-Star
	Jay Scully - Co-Star
	Patrick St. Esprit - Co-Star
	Zach Mills - Co-Star
	Tom Quinn - Co-Star
	Emerson Brooks - Co-Star
	Katie Lowes - Co-Star
	AJ Michalka - Co-Star
	Britt Flatmo - Co-Star
	Caitriona Balfe - Co-Star
	Teri Clark Linden - Co-Star
	James Hebert - Co-Star
	David Gallagher - Co-Star
	Greg Grunberg - Co-Star
	Tim Griffin - Co-Star
	Tony Guma - Co-Star
	Dale Dickey - Co-Star
	Michael Giacchino - Co-Star
	Tom Williams - Co-Star
	Amanda Foreman - Co-Star
	Bruce Greenwood - Co-Star
	Joel McKinnon Miller - Co-Star
	Bingo O'Malley - Co-Star
	Brett Rice - Co-Star
	Jessica Tuck - Co-Star
	Glynn Turman - Co-Star
	Michael Hitchcock - Co-Star
	Richard Timothy Jones - Co-Star
	Industrial Light and Magic - Animation
	Industrial Light and Magic - Visual Effects Designer
	Tom Johnson - Sound Re-Recording
	Udi Nedivi - Production Manager/UPM
	Andy Nelson - Sound Re-Recording
	Tommy Gormley - Assistant Director
	Anna Behlmer - Sound Re-Recording
	Larry Fong - Director of Photography
	John Stoneham Jr. - Stunt Coordinator
	Jeffrey Abrams - Screenwriter
	George Drakoulias - Music Director
	Michael Giacchino - Composer
	Jeri Baker - Hairstylist
	Jamie Kelman - Makeup Designer
	Paul Kavanagh - Animation Supervisor
	Fainche MacCarthy - Set Decorator
	Laura Liz Little - Costumes
	Bonni Flowers - Makeup
	Phil Carr Forster - Camera Operator
	Steven Riley - Special Effects Supervisor
	Stephen Oh - Costumes
	N. Edward Fincher - Costumes
	Jack Axelrod - Co-Star
	Dan Castellaneta - Co-Star
	Jeffrey Abrams - Director

Wall Street Journal
"The bright idea at the center of SUPER 8 is a counterpoint between a sci-fi adventure that unfolds on a grand scale and the evolution of the little Super 8 film within the film....SUPER 8 serves as a showcase for the style of humane, richly detailed and relatively unhurried filmmaking that made those Spielberg fantasies what they are..." 06/10/2011

USA Today
3.5 stars out of 4 -- "SUPER 8 packs the emotional punch of vintage Steven Spielberg with the spectacular effects and sense of mystery at which writer/director J.J. Abrams excels." 06/08/2011

Chicago Sun-Times
3.5 stars out of 4 -- "SUPER 8 has the visual signatures of an early Spielberg movie....SUPER 8 is a wonderful film, nostalgia not for a time but for a style of filmmaking..." 06/10/2011

Entertainment Weekly
"Loving, playful, and spectacularly well made....It's been eons since a movie has conjured up such intense, specific feelings, images, memories, and nostalgic fantasies about American summertime youth..." -- Grade: A 06/17/2011

Rolling Stone
3 stars out of 4 -- "In SUPER 8, Abrams makes us care. This movie, a true beauty, will put a spell on you." 06/23/2011

New York Times
"The slower, more cumbersome gadgetry of the predigital past provides SUPER 8 with some clever jokes and plot twists..." 06/09/2011

Hollywood Reporter
"[T]his science fiction adventure centered on film geek kids in smalltown 1979 America is something Spielberg can easily be imagined having made himself....Engagin on its own terms..." 06/04/2011

Total Film
5 stars out of 5 -- "Like Spielberg, Abrams has an eye for awe....This terrific troupe recall not just early Spielberg but '80s favourites STAND BY ME and THE MONSTER SQUAD." 08/01/2011

Film Comment
"SUPER 8 is distilled nostalgia....It's an unabashed romp that works even for those who didn't grow up in late-Seventies Everytown, USA." 07/01/2011

Sight and Sound
"SUPER 8 is an immaculate production, and set-piece scenes, such as the derailment and a later attack by the alien on a military vehicle, are first rate." 09/01/2011