The Relic

Starring: Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, Linda Hunt, et al.

Product Description

Margo Greene is an evolutionary biologist at a Chicago museum. When a coworker's research crate arrives without the researcher, Green and her mentor, Dr. Forck, unpack and investigate the material which includes a superstitious relic and an unidentifiable virus found on some leaves native to Brazil. At the same time, police Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta is investigating a ship full of dead people that arrived from Brazil. When murder occurs in the museum that is linked to those on the ship, D'Agosta seals off the museum. This infuriates the museum curator Ann Cuthbet who's hosting an exhibit opening gala reception that even the Mayor will be attending. D'Agosta and Green find out, however, that the killer is an ever evolving creature intent on killing everyone trapped in the museum.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 097363315476
• Release Date: May 1993
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Publisher: Paramount
• Director: Peter Hyams
• Starring: Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, Linda Hunt, James Whitmore, Clayton Rohner, Chi Muoi Lo, Thomas Ryan, Robert Lesser, Lewis Van Bergen
• Runtime: 1 hour, 50 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: anamorphic
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Tasty Penelope Ann Miller and hormones.

A ship that was supposed to transport some crates from South America to a museum seems to have a crew that lost their heads. The crates are finally flown in. One is full of goodies; the other just leaves. The museum’s Dr. Margo Green (Penelope Ann Miller) is suspicious. Everyone else is happy until a guard seems to have misplaced his hypothalamus. Looks like Dr. Margo Green is about to be consumed by her work. This is a pretty spiffy, well-done formula movie, based on the novel “Relic” by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. As with many contemporary movies, they completely ignore the book and add all the standard clichés. We have the ruthless rivalry, missing scientists, and mysterious crates. Naturally, no one does what they are supposed to do, and you start rooting for the, let's just call it, a relic.