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Galaxy Quest (1999)
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The first viewing can run on the affectionate collision between washed-up television actors and genuine space peril. Later ones reveal how neatly each performer's old role has trapped them, from the resentful alien sidekick to the terrified extra. Background responses and running complaints gain weight once you know which bits of fictional television will suddenly become useful.
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About Galaxy Quest
For four years, the courageous crew of the NSEA Protector — Commander Peter Quincy Taggart, Lieutenant Tawny Madison, and Doctor Lazarus — set off on a thrilling and often dangerous mission in space... until their series was cancelled! Now, twenty years later, aliens under attack have mistaken the Galaxy Quest television transmissions for "historical documents" and beam up the crew of has-been actors to save the universe. With no script, no director, and no clue, the actors must turn in the performances of their lives.