ROSWELL - U.F.O. COVER-UP

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• Release Year: 1994
• Genre: Drama, Special Interest, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: In the summer of 1947, a rancher discovers the charred remains of an unidentified flying object in the desert near Roswel, New Mexico. 30 Years and 350 eyewitnesses later.... the truth about what he found is finally coming out.; ; Originally made for cable television, Roswell is an entertaining mix of purported actual events and science fiction. The narrative unfolds primarily in flashbacks as retired Army officer Jesse Marcel (Kyle MacLachlan) attends a reunion of the 509th Bomber Group and tries to come to closure on events that had taken place 30 years earlier. Back in 1947, Major Marcel had been part of a military team that investigated a crash site on a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico. The debris recovered from the site had exhibited some remarkable properties such as being able to repair itself instantly after being cut, suggesting that it might have been of extraterrestrial origin. The military brass had ordered Marcel to go along with their phony story that the material was ordinary metal foil from a weather balloon, and he had reluctantly complied. By the time of the 1977 reunion, Marcel is suffering from a terminal illness, and he feels compelled to try to find out what had really happened at Roswell all those years ago. MacLachlan gives an effective performance, particularly when he portrays Marcel as an older man trying to understand his past. Evocative location shooting in the American Southwest adds cinematic impact. ~ All Movie Guide ;
• Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Martin Sheen, Dwight Yoakam, Xander Berkeley, Bob Gunton, Kim Greist, Peter MacNicol, John M. Jackson, Nick Searcy, J.D. Daniels, Charles Hallahan, Ray McKinnon, Eugene Roche, Charles Martin Smith, Doug Wert, Cynthia Allison, Hoke Howell, Bruce Ed Morrow, Will Huston, Layne Beamer, Max Trumpower, Mik Scriba, Matt Landers, George Gray III, Stephen C. Foster, Dave Adams, Bill Cook, J.W. 'Corkey' Fornof, Charles Beck, Randy Gagne, Matthew Faison, John Hostetter, Michael Bofshever, David Selburg, Doug McCurry, Charles M. Kistler, Daiton Rutkowski, F. William Parker, Jonathan Mincks, Peter Radon, Gary Bullock, Jim Hayne, Mark Phelan, Steve Lanza, Arthur L. Kopit, Michael Strasser, Don Fischer, Denice Marcel, Lisa Waltz, John Mahon, Stanley Grover, Warren Munson, Hansford Rowe, Richard Fancy, Paul Davids, Philip Baker Hall, Lawrence Dobkin, Edward Penn, Arthur Hiller, Brian Carpenter, George Pentecost, Parley Baer, Bruce Gray, Frank A. Roys, Vernon Blackman, Brian Cousins, James MacDonald, Robert Harvey, Jeremy Kagan
• Director: Jeremy Kagan
• Runtime: 1:31
• Company: Lion Gate Films
• Media Format: movie