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A Sound of Thunder

A Sound of Thunder

Release Date: September 2, 2005
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Peter Hyams
Screenwriter: Thomas Dean Donnelly, Joshua Oppenheimer, Ian LaFrenais, Richard Clement, Gregory Poirier
Starring: Edward Burns as Travis Ryer, Ben Kingsley as Charles Hatton, Catherine McCormack as Sonia Rand
Genre: Action/Adventure, Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: Not available
Official Website: ASoundofThunder.com
Reviews by: Coming Soon! (3 out of 10) & CNN (negative)

Plot Outline: Loosely based on the short story by science fiction author Ray Bradbury.

In the not-too-distant future, time travel is not only possible, it's a lucrative monopoly. Charles Hatton (Kingsley) is the owner of Time Safari Inc., a time travel agency that escorts wealthy clients on exclusive hunting trips back to the Prehistoric Age. Lead by seasoned scout Dr. Travis Ryer (Burns), clients are permitted to hunt and kill dinosaurs provided they follow certain strenuous rules. These rules are intended to prevent time travelers from impacting the course of evolution. On one hunt, the team’s guns malfunction and the hunters barely return alive. When they return to the future they discover that the timeline has been corrupted and the world has been changed by “time wave” ripples. Ryer teams up with Sonia Rand (McCormack), the inventor of time travel technology, to discover the reason for the timeline change and fix it, or else all of humanity will cease to exist.

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