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5.4/10   1,071 votes
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Writers (WGA):
Jules Verne (novel)
Thomas Baum (teleplay)
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Release Date:
14 September 1999 (USA) more
Plot:
Remake of Jules Verne's classic story finds adventurers seeking a mysterious hidden land. They are joined by the wife of another man... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Treat Williams ... Theodore Lytton

Jeremy London ... Jonas Lytton

Tushka Bergen ... Alice Hastings
Hugh Keays-Byrne ... McNiff

Bryan Brown ... Casper Hastings
Tessa Wells ... Helen

Petra Jared ... Ralna (as Petra Yared)
Sarah Chadwick ... Mashowna
Peter Kaa ... Te Mahua
Joe Bugner ... Boxer
Alan Hardy ... Reverend Polson
Bill Charles ... Doctor
John Forsyth ... Society Member
Warwick Begg ... Policeman
Christopher Christo ... Johnny Alcott
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Runtime:
180 min (3 parts) | Germany:178 min | USA:188 min (DVD version) | Finland:180 min (4 parts)
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Quotes:
Helen: He's going to the center of the Earth. You get dizzy on the botton rung of a ladder.
Jonas Lytton: Not the *bottom* rung.
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18 out of 22 people found the following review useful.
It's OK...., 17 September 2005
6/10
Author: ragreen259 from United States

But I have to say, it takes a set of balls the size of ostrich eggs to make a movie and put a title on it that belongs to an entirely different story. Jules Verne is spinning in his grave on this one, believe me--this isn't even vaguely in line with the book. None of the characters even have the same name, fer crying' out loud! There's tribes of lizard men and humans living down there, AND THE HUMANS SPEAK English!!

I did find the movie entertaining however, my only real issue with it is blatantly stealing the name of one of the greatest science fiction fantasies ever written in history and dropping it on another story in the blatant interest of tricking people to come in and think that they're about to witness the real thing. For God's sake, they even credit Jules Verne!!! For what, writing the title? On the up side, the women are all beautiful, but on the other hand, the men don't look like any of them, at least the subterranean dwellers, have bathed in years. What IS that stuff on them, anyway, if not dirt.

I hear that they're remaking Plan 9 From Outer Space next year, and they're going to call it Gone With the Wind.

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