T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous

T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous is a 1998 edu-tainment feature filmed for the IMAX 3D format. The film is directed by Brett Leonard, renowned for his Computer-generated imagery special effects productions. Executive producer/co-writer Andrew Gellis and producers Antoine Compin and Charis Horton also make up the production team. Actors Liz Stauber and Peter Horton star, alongside Kari Coleman, Tuck Milligan and Laurie Murdoch. The film is among the ... more

T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous is a 1998 edu-tainment feature filmed for the IMAX 3D format. The film is directed by Brett Leonard, renowned for his Computer-generated imagery special effects productions. Executive producer/co-writer Andrew Gellis and producers Antoine Compin and Charis Horton also make up the production team. Actors Liz Stauber and Peter Horton star, alongside Kari Coleman, Tuck Milligan and Laurie Murdoch. The film is among the few IMAX films that are considered "pure entertainment" though it still is considered rather educational by the mainstream audience. The plot revolves around 16-year-old Ally Hayden (Stauber), the daughter of a world-famous paleontologist and museum curator (Horton). She loves dinosaurs and longs to be able to accompany him to one of the nearby paleontological digs, but her father thinks this is too dangerous and she has to settle for giving museum tours instead. A mysterious accident at the lab revolving an oblong fossil rock happens while... less