Mars Attacks 🎥 1996 Movie Info

Plot Summary

On the planet Mars, a Martian spaceship gathers hundreds of other ships and travels to Earth. President James Dale, along with his aides, addresses the United States concerning this historic event. Several days later, the President’s science aides set up a first-contact meeting with the Martians in Pahrump, Nevada, as Dale watches the development on television with his wife Marsha and his daughter Taffy. Using a translation machine, the Martian ambassador announces that his race has “come in peace”. In response, a hippie releases a dove as a symbol of peace, causing the ambassador to shoot it before ordering the other Martians to massacre most of the attendees at the event, including General Casey, news reporter Jason Stone, and young private Billy-Glenn Norris.

Talk-show host and Jason’s co-worker and girlfriend Nathalie Lake and her pet chihuahua, Poppy, are captured by the Martians in the process. Thinking that the Martians assumed that the dove was a symbol of war, Dale tells Professor Donald Kessler to renegotiate with the Martians, whose ambassador later requests to address the United States Congress. At this meeting, the Martians annihilate most of Congress and, despite begging the ambassador to stop, Kessler is knocked unconscious and taken aboard their ship. Kessler’s head is disembodied and animated as part of the Martian’s experiments, who have also switched around Nathalie and Poppy’s heads onto their bodies.

Back on Earth, General Decker fails to persuade Dale to retaliate with nuclear warfare. After a failed attempt to assassinate Dale using a disguised Martian, the Martians declare war and invade Earth in droves, starting with Washington, DC, and quickly spreading around the globe. As they attack the White House, the U.S. Secret Service evacuates Dale, but Marsha is crushed to death by a chandelier while Taffy is separated during the chaos.

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