Galaxy Quest
A comedy of galactic proportions.
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was cancelled!Now, twenty years later, aliens under attack have mistaken the Galaxy Quest television transmissions for "historical documents" and beam up the crew of has-been actors to save the universe.
- Director
- Dean Parisot
- Signature
- Wonder · Craft · Action
- Worldwide
- $91M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
The Nutevio profile
Movie DNA
How Galaxy Quest actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve traits our editors track across every Nutevio title.
Story overview
What It's About
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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 Now, twenty years later, aliens under attack have mistaken the Galaxy Quest television transmissions for "historical documents" and beam up the crew of has-been actors to save the universe.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.
Where to watch
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Why We Recommend It
Why It's Ranked
Galaxy Quest appears in 2 Nutevio collections. Here is the argument behind each placement.
- Best Time Travel Movies Ranked #21
Placed at #21 by the Nutevio ranking model. An editor's written case is on the way.
- Best Space Movies Ranked #29
Placed at #29 by the Nutevio ranking model. An editor's written case is on the way.
The numbers
Box Office & Release
Galaxy Quest returned 2.0× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $45M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $91M
- Release date
- Dec 25, 1999
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
Figures from the verified production record. Fields we cannot source are left blank rather than estimated.
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