An accident-prone and obnoxious geek joins a NASA space mission to Mars. During the flight, he manages to put himself and the entire crew in jeopardy, but is in danger of emerging as a hero when his new colleagues need him to save them from the unforgiving surface of the red planet.
Practical Effects
Charming practical effects and a very good space chimp performance.
Acting
Harland Williams commits 110% to every scream, pratfall, and nasal whine.
Director
Stuart Gillard
Harland Williams
Fred Z. Randall
Jessica Lundy
Julie Ford
William Sadler
Wild Bill Overbeck
Jeffrey DeMunn
Paul Wick
James Pickens Jr.
Ben Stevens
Beau Bridges
Bud Nesbitt
Peter Onorati
Gary Hackman
Don Lake
Le Chirurgien du Vol
Bill Jenkins
Mission Controller
Ken Farmer
Mission Controller
Blake Boyd
Gordon A. Peacock
Paxton Whitehead
British Reporter
Sean Tweedley
NASA Lab Tech
Cindy Hogan
Reporter
Lidia Porto
Gary's Nurse
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Mars surface was shot in a massive Utah quarry; the crew nicknamed it 'Mars, Utah' and kept rocks as souvenirs.
Released months after Mars Pathfinder's Sojourner rover landed, cashing hard on real 1997 Mars fever that Contact and Armageddon also rode.
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