The Terminator

1984 108 min Action, Thriller, Science Fiction

In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine?

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IMDb 8.1 RT 90 Metacritic 84

budget $6,400,000 earnings $78,371,200 return 12.2x

director James Cameron

writers James Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd

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