Film

Cowboys & Aliens

2011 · 1h 59m · Action · Science Fiction · Thriller

First Contact. Last Stand.

IMDb

6.0

Rotten Tomatoes

44%

Metacritic

50

A stranger stumbles into the desert town of Absolution with no memory of his past and a futuristic shackle around his wrist. With the help of mysterious beauty Ella and the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde, he finds himself leading an unlikely posse of cowboys, outlaws, and Apache warriors against a common enemy from beyond this world in an epic showdown for survival.

Daniel Craig

Jake Lonergan

Harrison Ford

Woodrow Dolarhyde

Olivia Wilde

Ella Swenson

Sam Rockwell

Doc

Adam Beach

Nat Colorado

Paul Dano

Percy Dolarhyde

Noah Ringer

Emmet Taggart

Keith Carradine

Sheriff John Taggart

Clancy Brown

Meacham

Walton Goggins

Hunt

Abigail Spencer

Alice

Ana de la Reguera

Maria

Raoul Max Trujillo

Black Knife

David O'Hara

Pat Dolan

Buck Taylor

Wes Claiborne

Matthew Taylor

Luke Claiborne

• Jon FavreauDirector · Executive Producer
• Roberto OrciScreenplay · Producer
• Alex KurtzmanScreenplay · Producer
• Damon LindelofScreenplay
• Mark FergusScreenplay · Story
• Hawk OstbyScreenplay · Story
• Steve OedekerkStory
• Brian GrazerProducer
• Ron HowardProducer
• Bobby CohenExecutive Producer

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Release date

July 29, 2011

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 59m

Rated

PG-13

Budget

$163,000,000

Revenue

$174,822,325

Genres

Action, Science Fiction, Thriller, Western

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