Nearly a decade after occupation by an extraterrestrial force, the lives of a Chicago neighborhood on both sides of the conflict are explored. In a working-class Chicago neighborhood occupied by an alien force for nine years, increased surveillance and the restriction of civil rights have given rise to an authoritarian system — and dissent among the populace.

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Film Cast:

• William Mulligan: John Goodman
• Gabriel Drummond: Ashton Sanders
• Rafe Drummond: Jonathan Majors
• Jane Doe: Vera Farmiga
• Police Chief Igoe: Kevin Dunn
• Kermode: Kevin J. O’Connor
• Rittenhouse: Alan Ruck
• Daniel: Ben Daniels
• Ellison: James Ransone
• Levitt: D.B. Sweeney
• Jurgis: Machine Gun Kelly
• Rula: Madeline Brewer
• Anita: Caitlin Ewald
• Evan Hayes: Lawrence Grimm
• Eddie the Priest: Guy Van Swearingen
• Flores: Elena Marisa Flores
• Courier: Rene L. Moreno
• Hacker: Yasen Peyankov
• Barbosa: Ta’Rhonda Jones
• Kathy Mulligan: Shannon Cochran
• Flora: Patrese McClain
• John: Chike Johnson
• Jean Hayes: Megan Brooke Long
• Posner: Chronicle Ganawah
• Theo: Alex Henderson
• Teenager: Lucien Cambric
• Carrie: KiKi Layne
• Medic: Avery Lee
• Crystal Billy: Bries Vannon
• Aide: Jason Bradley
• Interrogator: James Hatten
• Lead Elroy: Christian Isely
• Legislator Translator: Laura Fisher
• Neighbor: Steve Herson
• Mayor Ed Lee: Marc Grapey
• Morgue Attendant: Eric C. Lynch
• Nark: José Antonio García
• Pirate DJ: Kelly Cole
• Prison Guard: Danny Goldring
• Robert Watts: Michael Collins
• Security Guard: Julius Mercer
• Soldier Field MC: David J. Height
• Skinny Black Marketeer: Robert Forte Shannon III
• Soldier Field Singer: Meghan Murphy
• Girl in Data Center: Wendi Weber
• Surveillance Specialist: Mickey O’Sullivan
• Surveillance Tech: Ronald L. Conner
• Censor: Jane Baxter Miller
• Beat Cop: Matthew Lucki
• Embed Translator: Cyrus Alexander
• Human Translator: Ilyssa Fradin
• Hysterical Woman: Linsey Page Morton
• Circle Guy: Marcos Barnes
• Man with Microphone: John Brady
• Hunter Puppeteer: Greg Nicotero
• Young Gabriel: Zach Thomas
• 15-Year-Old Rafe: Collin Woldt
• Fan (uncredited): Brian Bowman
• Lead Hunter (uncredited): Carey Jones
• Fan (uncredited): Lizzy Leigh
• Elroy (uncredited): Mino Mackic
• Fan Girl (uncredited): Jackie Saland
• Prisoner (uncredited): Giota Trakas
• Legislator (uncredited): Otis Winston

Film Crew:

• Producer: Rupert Wyatt
• Screenplay: Erica Beeney
• Original Music Composer: Rob Simonsen
• Producer: David Crockett
• Director of Photography: Alex Disenhof
• Production Design: Keith P. Cunningham
• Costume Design: Abby O’Sullivan
• Editor: Andrew Groves
• Art Direction: Chris Cleek
• Casting: Sheila Jaffe
• Music Editor: Mark Wike
• Supervising Sound Editor: Paul Hsu
• Unit Production Manager: Jeff Valeri
• Unit Production Manager: Ron Schmidt
• Executive Producer: Adam Simon
• Executive Producer: Jeff Skoll
• Executive Producer: Jonathan King
• First Assistant Director: Jonas Spaccarotelli
• Second Assistant Director: Jason Dusenske
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Brooke Lyndon-Stanford
• Executive In Charge Of Production: Robert Kessel
• Musician: Ian Chang
• Musician: Christopher Wray
• Stunts: Kelli Victoria Scarangello
• Stunts: Linda Perlin
• Set Production Assistant: Johnny Woj
• Production Assistant: Kerri Lyn Walsh
• Stand In: Ashland Thomas
• Production Assistant: David Ten Brook
• Production Assistant: Jessica Dean Rose
• Additional Production Assistant: Matthew J. Reilly
• Second Assistant Accountant: Shakena Reed
• Production Assistant: Baili McPheeters
• Additional Production Assistant: Tatiana Matos
• Publicist: Ernie Malik
• Studio Teacher: Jill S. Litwin
• Production Accountant: Eric Layne
• Researcher: Lizzy Jane Klein
• Production Assistant: Robin King
• Producer’s Assistant: Amelia Hickenlooper
• Production Assistant: Joy Johaana Hamilton
• Production Assistant: Mackenzie Gulley
• Payroll Accountant: Jeffrey Gladu
• Pilot: Michael Franck
• First Assistant Accountant: Janette Evans
• Production Coordinator: Jonelle Castillo Deal
• Production Assistant: Rich Cooke
• Additional Production Assistant: Jacki Colombari
• Production Assistant: Quincy Rycraw Cochran
• Set Production Assistant: Will Clarke
• Production Assistant: Juan Cervantes
• Production Assistant: Josh Carlascio
• Additional Production Assistant: Kelly Carevic
• Assistant Production Coordinator: Maddi Bruton
• Production Assistant: James Birtwistle
• Production Secretary: Rob Bergen
• Post Production Accountant: Diana Ascher
• Production Assistant: Cynthia Appleby
• Title Designer: Christian Antolin
• Transportation Coordinator: James Hogan
• Production Driver: Scott Gaughan
• Production Driver: Rob Gaughan
• Transportation Captain: Victor W. Chin
• Additional Script Supervisor: Tori Scott
• Script Supervisor: Sarah Schooley
• Additional Script Supervisor: Kelsey O’Brien Flath
• Musician: Gyða Valtýsdóttir
• Musician: Eloisa-Fleur Thom
• Musician: Phillippa Slack
• Musician: Hal Rosenfeld
• Musician: Kate Hainsworth
• Musician: Sasha Koushk-Jalali
• Musician: David Geoghegan
• Orchestrator: Hugh Brunt
• Musician: Galya Bisengalieva
• Assistant Location Manager: Amanda Nye
• Location Manager: Stefan Nikolov
• Location Assistant: Stephen Lovelette Jr.
• Location Assistant: Joseph Jorjoliani
• Assistant Location Manager: Jeff Crider
• Color Assistant: Jake White
• Post Production Coordinator: John Sylva
• Color Assistant: Josh Spector
• Senior Colorist: Tom Poole
• First Assistant Editor: Donna Madrigal
• Digital Intermediate Producer: Margaret Lewis
• VFX Editor: Conor Guy
• Post Production Assistant: Clara Gallagher
• Dailies Manager: Leeza Diott
• Online Editor: John Diesso
• Assistant Costume Designer: Melissa Walker
• Seamstress: Kimberley Schuler
• Ager/Dyer: Nadia Salameh
• Key Costumer: Taylor Kannett
• Set Costumer: Samantha Inniss
• Costumer: Johnny Imbres
• Costumer: Seth Elliott
• ADR Voice Casting: Bruce Winant
• Casting Associate: Jenn Noyes
• Casting Assistant: Diana McGrail
• Casting Assistant: Hunter McCormick
• ADR Voice Casting: Dann Fink
• Extras Casting Assistant: Hayley Beck
• Animation: Paul Smith
• Animation: Helen Bucknall
• Animation Supervisor: Tom Brass
• Animation: Henry Affonso
• Digital Imaging Technician: Thomas Zimmerman
• Lighting Technician: David F. Wolff
• First Assistant “B” Camera: Chris Wittenborn
• Lighting Technician: Kevin Willson
• Rigging Gaffer: Billy Wauer
• Digital Imaging Technician: Ryan Shuck
• Additional First Assistant Camera: John Waterman
• Gaffer: Jarred Waldron
• Grip: Salvador Torrison
• Lighting Technician: Bradley Ian Smith
• Grip: Addae Shelby
• Second Assistant “B” Camera: Ron Ruanphae
• Additional First Assistant Camera: Matt Rozek
• Grip: Nick Miller
• Still Photographer: Parrish Lewis
• Second Assistant Camera: Mac Kozi
• Lighting Technician: Joseph Kosty
• Grip: Christian Hins
• Lighting Technician: Thomas Hamaker
• Electrician: Dan Giese
• Genetator Operator: John Freitag
• Best Boy Electric: Mike Dambra
• Key Grip: Joseph Czerw
• Camera Operator: Marcis Cole
• Camera Operator: Thomas S. Ciciura
• Grip: Jake Chappelle
• Second Unit Director of Photography: Lance Catania
• Lighting Technician: Mark Carlile
• Electrician: Ryan A. Campbell
• First Assistant “C” Camera: Mitch Buss
• Still Photographer: Adrian S Burrows Sr.
• Steadicam Operator: Sebastien Audinelle
• Second Assistant “A” Camera: Eric Arndt
• Video Assist Operator: Tim Armstrong
• Stunts: Otis Winston
• Stunts: Amye Wilmes
• Stunts: Rich Wilkie
• Stunts: Cheyenne Watson
• Stunts: Tony Vittorioso
• Stunts: Rebecca Vickers
• Stunts: Olya Vavrenyuk
• Stunts: Summer Cain
• Stunts: Buddy Sosthand
• Stunts: Kevin Sorensen
• Stunts: Dominique Elijah Smith
• Stunts: Jim Sheerin
• Stunts: Stephan Roberts
• Stunts: Kenny Richards
• Stunts: Greg Poljacik
• Stunts: Scott Philyaw
• Stunts: Brian Peters
• Stunts: Carl Paoli
• Stunts: Zach Nolte
• Stunt Coordinator: Chris Nolte
• Stunts: Brian Neal
• Stunts: Natalie M. Meyer
• Stunts: Randall McDonald
• Stunts: Nancy McCrumb
• Stunts: Deborah L. Mazor
• Stunts: Dan Maxwell
• Stunts: Nicole Marines
• Stunts: Tom Maldonado
• Stunts: Daniel Maldonado
• Stunts: Tom Lowell
• Stunts: Christian Litke
• Stunts: Dan Lemieux
• Stunts: Rick LeFevour
• Stunts: Matthew LeFevour
• Stunts: Rick LeFevour Jr.
• Stunts: Alex Jovica
• Stunts: Loren Ashley Jones
• Stunts: Carey Jones
• Stunts: Samuel Evan Horowitz
• Stunts: Sara Holden
• Stunts: Heath Hensley
• Stunts: Mark Harper
• Stunts: Brian Harlan
• Stunts: Anthony Goodwin
• Stunts: Mike Fierro
• Stunts: James Fierro
• Stunts: Brandon Fierro
• Stunts: Eddie J. Fernandez
• Stunts: Eddie J. Fernandez Jr.
• Stunts: Tobiasz Daszkiewicz
• Stunts: Manya Crippen
• Stunts: Aaron Crippen
• Stunts: Brian Christensen
• Stunts: Ryan Carr
• Stunts: Shawn Cannon
• Stunts: Todd Bloomer
• Stunts: Olivia Bird
• Stunts: Tully Bertorelli
• Stunts: Walter S. Bernard
• Stunts: Robert G. Beck
• Stunts: Stephanie Andrews
• Stunts: Jay R. Adams
• Stunts: Michele Sweeney Abrams
• Painter: Vijay Kumar Yadav
• VFX Artist: Timmy Wong
• Digital Compositor: Pragti Wadhwa
• Visual Effects Compositor: Desislava Valcheva
• Digital Compositor: Christopher Taylor
• Data Wrangler: Paul Stevens
• Compositor: Sheena Sankhla
• Digital Compositor: Hitesh Saindane
• Digital Compositor: Gerard Romea
• Digital Compositor: Ryan Purnell
• VFX Artist: Pavel Pekun
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Eric Pascarelli
• Concept Artist: David Masson
• Digital Compositor: Nikolay Kolev
• Digital Compositor: Isabel Howlett
• Digital Compositor: Gökçecan Gürsoy
• Digital Compositor: Ivan Grozev
• Digital Compositor: Carlos Diego
• Line Producer: Jitesh Gohil
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Lauren Dowsett
• CG Supervisor: Dave Cook
• Lighting Artist: Martin Contel
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Liz Christofaro
• Digital Compositor: Jeremy Booth
• VFX Artist: Petur Breki Bjarnason
• VFX Artist: Pavan Balagam
• VFX Artist: Oliver Auguszt
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Pamela Austria
• Digital Compositor: Yavor Asenov
• Special Effects Coordinator: Ryan Steinhouse
• Special Effects: Daniel Steinhouse
• Special Effects: Andis Rutkis
• Special Effects: Jordan Gianneschi
• Special Effects Technician: Brian Rebel Cummings
• Special Effects Makeup Artist: Andy Bergholtz
• Special Effects Technician: Masih Abdullah
• Utility Sound: Kelsey Zeigler
• Sound Effects Editor: Allan Zaleski
• Assistant Sound Editor: Ja-Ann Wang
• Dialogue Editor: Sara Stern
• Assistant Sound Editor: Sarah Streit
• ADR Mixer: Carl Shillito
• Sound Effects Editor: Nicholas Schenck
• Sound Mixer: David Obermeyer
• ADR Mixer: Chris Navarro
• Boom Operator: Adam Mohundro
• Foley Editor: Frank Kern
• Foley Artist: Marko Costanzo
• ADR Recordist: Phil Castellano Jr.
• ADR Recordist: Justine Baker
• Assistant Property Master: John Youngblood
• Scenic Artist: Michael Richey White
• Concept Artist: Steve HyunSuk Suh
• Graphic Designer: Karen Sori
• Concept Artist: Xander Smith
• Concept Artist: Gloria Shih
• Set Dresser: Kiley Quadrozzi
• Props: Anna Parfitt
• Art Department Coordinator: Alice Packard
• Set Dresser: Jason Negron
• Storyboard Artist: Jason Millet
• Set Dresser: Danial A. Miller Jr.
• Set Dresser: Nick Matthys
• Leadman: Cyril H. Matthys
• On Set Dresser: Tim Kossa
• Construction Coordinator: Steve Hull
• Set Decoration Buyer: Erika Hood
• Set Designer: Jessie Haddad
• Conceptual Illustrator: Josue Clotaire Fleurimond
• Concept Artist: John Eaves
• Storyboard Artist: Warren Drummond
• Set Dresser: Zach Doherty
• Property Master: Matthew Cavaliero
• Concept Artist: Kyle Brown
• Set Designer: Thomas Betts
• Second Second Assistant Director: Dan Lamkin
• Second Second Assistant Director: Dan Gutierrez
• Additional Second Assistant Director: Pablo Gambetta
• Post Production Supervisor: Luca Borghese
• Key Hair Stylist: Daria V. Wright
• Makeup Artist: Christine Sciortino
• Key Hair Stylist: Lillian Sakamaki
• Makeup Department Head: Zsofia Otvos
• Special Effects Makeup Artist: Greg Nicotero
• Special Effects Makeup Artist: Rochelle Kneisely-Fisher
• Makeup Artist: Karen Koenig
• Hair Department Head: Katherine Kousakis
• Key Makeup Artist: Lisa JelicWatson
• Concept Artist: James Grant

Movie Reviews:

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• As a huge fan of the sci-fi genre, especially when it involves alien invasions of some kind, movies like this always leave me excited. It doesn’t matter what the audience or critics have been saying (in fact, it never does) because it won’t affect my enthusiasm (in fact, nothing does). By knowing who the cast, director, writers, and producers are, I instantly know how high or low I need to set my expectations. Having this in mind, I was hoping that Captive State could be one of 2019’s surprises. It has an unusual concept that can provide a very unique story if it’s well-told, so the big question is: did they execute all of their ideas successfully?
• Unfortunately, no. Not even close. Honestly, the screenplay is so convoluted and messy that I felt “lost” several times. I admire the amount of work that they put into this because they actually did and it shows. The overall concept and its ramifications are all there, the story is indeed interesting. It’s just the way that it’s told that ruins the entire thing. However, the first sentence I heard after the film’s conclusion, came from someone who said: “here I was expecting massive action and …” If you go into your movie theater expecting a straightforward, action-heavy, alien-invasion-type flick and you leave disappointed, that’s on you! From the trailers to its marketing, there was never a message of “hey, this is pure action, humans vs. aliens!”
• It tried its best to give the world a different take on this “sub-genre”, let’s call it that. I mean, they had it all: a good cast with the always astonishing John Goodman (William Mulligan) as one of the protagonists, beautiful visual effects that elevated the set design, and the aliens actually have an intriguing physical shape. Sadly, there’s barely any aliens throughout the runtime. There’s hardly … anything. I don’t know what happened post-production, but it feels like they were pushed to deliver something different, so they cut all of the other scenes with extra-terrestrial stuff (I’m certain that they had more to show).
• The main issue here is that you can never have a 100% ambiguous story. Arrival is probably the best non-typical alien-invasion movie ever, not because it scarcely shows any aliens or action, but due to its twistful and thought-provoking script. Nevertheless, it still shows a lot! You don’t leave that film disappointed because you didn’t see the inside of a spaceship or an actual alien. You leave perplexed and with your mind blown. Captive State just leaves you confused and wishing for more. A lot more. There’s really not that much more to say on this review without getting into spoiler territory.
• Sadly, this is one of those movies that come out every year showing tremendous potential, an innovative and intriguing premise, but that in the end, it just isn’t able to succeed. It doesn’t structure its story and ideas in the most efficient way possible. Its execution is sloppy, filled with hollow characters, no real flow (it feels like it’s just a scene after another scene), too vague, and it profoundly hopes that you didn’t figure out a pretty obvious twist so they can shock you seconds away from the end. It’s not horrible, but it’s definitely frustrating and disappointing.
• John Goodman delivers a great performance as always, and the visual effects are striking, to say the least. The production quality is undeniable, they really worked hard to provide the audience with an environment that actually feels real. The first act is pretty good, but it’s downhill from there. Ashton Sanders shares the lead with Goodman, and he’s also pretty good, no doubt about it. However, and this sums up the film pretty well: if I have to check online what the name of the main character was (Gabriel Drummond), then something went terribly wrong. It’s not going to end up being one of the worst movies of the year, but so far, it’s the biggest letdown.
• Rating: C-
• Gimly: Honestly don’t really know what I just saw. It’s like if _The Battle of Algiers_ had no nuance, or if _District 9_ you know… sucked.
• _Final rating:★★ – Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product._