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The Mummy

Rating:PG-13 (for pervasive adventure violence and some partial nudity)
Genre:Action/Adventure, Suspense/Thriller
Release Date:May 7, 1999
Running time:125 minutes
Cast:Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo, Stephen Dunham
Director:Stephen Sommers
Producer:James Jacks, Sean Daniel
Writer:Stephen Sommers
Distributor:Universal Pictures

Description: A full-scale re-imagining of Universal Pictures' seminal 1932 film, The Mummy is a rousing, humorous, suspenseful and horrifying epic about an expedition of treasure-seeking explorers in the Sahara Desert in 1925. Stumbling upon an ancient tomb, the hunters unwittingly set loose a 3,000-year-old legacy of terror, which is embodied in the vengeful reincarnation of an Egyptian priest who had been sentenced to an eternity as one of the living dead.

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