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Synopsis: Cloverfield follows five New Yorkers from the perspective of a hand-held video camera. The movie is exactly the length of a DV Tape and a sub-plot is established by showing bits and pieces of video previously recorded on the tape that is being recorded over. The movie starts as a monster of unknown origin destroys a building. As they go to investigate, parts of the building and the head of the Statue of Liberty come raining down. The movie follows their adventure trying to escape and save a friend, a love interest of the main character.
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Director(s): Matt Reeves
Production: Paramount
  5 wins & 27 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Metacritic:
64
Rotten Tomatoes:
77%
PG-13
Year:
2008
85 min
$79,952,254
Website
1,951 Views


-Let him go.

-We should talk to him.

-We're not talking to him.

I could talk to him now.

Dude, you already talked

to the whole party!

-...have to do something.

-No. Everyone needs to just calm down

-and give him space.

-He's just gonna stay

-locked in his room all night?

-Lily, look at you.

-It's fine, trust me.

-It is not fine.

-It is fine.

-You are his brother.

You are his best friend.

Go and make him happy.

So, how do you wanna do this?

Do you wanna do most of the talking,

or do you want me

to do most of the talking?

-You're not doing any talking.

-Okay, cool.

We got to talk.

You don't know

what you're talking about,

-all right?

-Okay, well, then tell me.

It was just a spur-of-the-moment thing.

Yeah, well, Beth told Lori

that after you guys got together,

-you totally blew her off.

-I didn't blow her off!

She said you never called her.

Look, I'm leaving, all right?

So what am I supposed to do?

I don't know, man.

She was heartbroken.

Look, there's no "together." It's just

her and me, two separate things.

It's better if we just stay friends.

...not that I feel like I'm not

good enough for her!

No, stop, stop!

I didn't say "feel," Rob.

You're not good enough for her.

That's it. That's fact. That's science.

Beth Mclntyre is, like,

from a whole 'nother planet, man.

She's beautiful. She's charming.

And you... I love you,

but let's face it,

you're kind of a douchebag.

And going to Japan is not gonna fix that.

She's crazy about you, bro.

-Like, right now, as you are.

-And you're in love with her.

-But you got to go after her.

-It's not that simple.

-No, it is that simple, Rob.

-Come on, man. Don't be scared.

It's about moments, man.

That's all that...

You got to learn to say,

"Forget the world,"

and hang on to the people

that you care about the most.

Oh, God. Oh, God.

Oh, my God. What the hell was that?

That scared the sh*t out of me.

Lil! Lil!

Did you feel that?

It was like an earthquake.

-You guys...

-Lil, where are you?

-What was that?

-What was that?

-Hey. Are you all right?

-Oh, my God.

-Yeah, that was really scary.

-Did you see anything?

Hey, Marlena! Marlena, are you okay?

Guys, look out!

-Okay.

-It was like a bomb.

All right, here we go. Here we go.

Here we go. Here we go.

Wait. Everyone quiet down. All right?

-But now, just approximately...

-Shut up, shut up.

-... 15 minutes after word...

-Guys! Come on.

...of a possible earthquake

in lower Manhattan.

Nearby, in New York Harbor, we're

getting word of an oil tanker capsizing

in the middle of the harbor

near the Statue of Liberty.

-Once again...

-Dude, that's really close.

-... there's no way to know if any...

-That's really, really close.

That's true. Do you think

we could see something from the roof?

-I don't know. Maybe.

-J, wanna go to the roof?

Let's go see if we can see

something on the roof.

Come on, Jason.

We're not going up to the roof.

-Yeah, let's go up there.

-I don't think we should.

-No!

-That was really...

What do you think?

Think it's another terrorist attack?

-It's insane, man.

-Watch your step.

It was shaking everywhere, man.

Just like tremors.

-Yeah, it's on the news downstairs.

-ls this the only lights that went out?

-I think they blew up the trains.

-No, a couple did.

-Some stayed on.

-Oh, man. What is going on?

Maybe you should've left town

a little bit earlier, right?

Shut up.

Oh, my God!

No, no, no.

Go, go, go, go, go, go, go!

Hud. Move. Hud!

Oh, God.

-Rob, you got a set of keys?

-Get out of here!

Right, did you look back?

Did anybody get hurt?

-Did anybody see Jason or not?

-I don't know.

Did anybody see Jason?

Has anybody seen Jason?

-Did anybody see Jason?

-ls he inside?

Oh, my God! Oh! Oh, sh*t!

Oh, Jesus Christ!

-Oh, God! Oh, God!

-Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, my God!

Oh, my God!

You gotta take your stuff

and we gotta get out of here, man!

I'm telling you!

-I'm so sorry.

-Where were you?

Hey, did you guys see that?

Did you guys just see that?

Go! Let's go!

-Hey, get down! Get down!

-You all right? You all right?

Yeah, did you guys see that?

-Did you guys see that?

-You all right?

There are people still out there.

Rob! Rob! Hey, Rob, I saw it! Rob!

-Rob.

-What?

-Rob, I saw it!

-What?

-What's he saying?

-It's alive.

Stay down, Lily! Get back!

He's going away now.

-Jason, what are you doing?

-Jason, where are you going?

Lily, just wait.

-Jason, don't go out...

-Jason, don't!

Lily, just wait here!

Hey, Rob! Rob!

Where's he going, dude?

-Jason!

-Rob. Rob!

-Oh, my God. Marlena?

-Oh, God.

Are you okay?

Wait, come here. Come here. Sit down.

It walked right through

that street over there.

That's what I'm trying to tell you.

It walked right over my head.

-What?

-That's the sound it's making.

You said you saw something, right?

So what did you see?

-You said it was alive? What was it?

-Who cares what it...

I don't know, man. I don't know.

I mean, I was taping. I can show you.

Hey, you guys! I have it on tape!

-Well, then rewind it. Rewind it.

-Yeah. Here, here. Let me rewind it...

It's gonna be a great opportunity for you.

Yeah, but I don't even

speak the language.

Oh, come on. How hard could it be?

It's Japanese. It's Japanese-hard.

-It'll be fine.

-Do you really think I should go?

-Oh, my God.

-That makes no sense.

-That makes no sense.

-Did you see it?

I don't know what it was, of course!

It was giant.

It was like... Did you see that thing?

-I'm not yelling at you, all right?

-Yes, you are!

Hey, guys, guys, come on!

Everybody just calm down!

-Quiet, guys.

-All right. Come on, just shut up!

All right? We don't know what we saw!

The point is it's still here!

All right? So we need to get

the hell out of Manhattan!

-Now.

-Yeah, yeah.

And out to the Brooklyn Bridge.

I think it's the best plan.

-It's a straight shot to Delancey.

-Just take the Williamsburg.

No. Do you know how far that is?

Brooklyn is right there.

No, no, no, dude. It's so much closer.

It's right here.

-Center Street's like a block away.

-What's going on?

I think we're gonna get out of here.

Is she okay to...

Okay, yeah. Yeah, okay. Marlena,

we're gonna get out of here, okay?

It was eating people.

It was eating everyone.

We gotta go! Go! Let's go!

Okay, come here.

-Go, go, go, go, go.

-I don't think... Don't even look.

-ls anyone's phone working?

-What?

-Hud, is your phone working?

-What?

-No...

-Sh*t! I left it in the apartment.

-There's no signal.

-You're not getting a signal either?

No, no, come on.

-Hud, come on!

-What? Okay.

It's all right.

Let's go.

We need an IV.

-Calm down, please.

-Let's go, people.

-Let's go. Let's go.

-Excuse me, Officer.

Do you know...

What was that thing? What was it?

Look, if you're not injured,

you got to keep moving, man.

Let's go! Let's go, people! Let's go!

Yeah, once we get to the bridge,

we'll be safe.

Hey, how are you? Is she doing better?

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Drew Goddard

Andrew Brion Hogan Goddard (born February 26, 1975) is an American film and television screenwriter, director, and producer. He began his career as a writer on numerous acclaimed television series, such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Alias, and Lost. Goddard received further recognition for writing the successful monster horror film Cloverfield (2008) and the action horror film World War Z (2013). Goddard made his directorial feature film debut with the horror-comedy film The Cabin in the Woods (2012). In 2015, Goddard wrote the screenplay for the acclaimed science fiction film The Martian, for which he won the National Board of Review Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He then directed the mystery thriller film Bad Times at the El Royale (2018). more…

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