Theodore Rex (film)
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Theodore Rex DVD cover
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| Directed by | Jonathan Betuel |
| Produced by |
Richard Gilbert Abramson Sue Baden-Powell |
| Written by | Jonathan Betuel |
| Starring |
Whoopi Goldberg Armin Mueller-Stahl George Newbern Kenneth Londoner |
| Music by | Robert Folk |
| Cinematography | David Tattersall |
| Edited by | Steve Mirkovich Rick Shaine |
| Distributed by | New Line Cinema |
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Release date
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Germany: December 1995 United States/Canada: July 2, 1996 Japan: July 27, 1996 United Kingdom: August 26, 1996 |
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Running time
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92 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $33.5 million |
Theodore Rex, also known as T. Rex, is a 1995buddy cop/science fiction/family film written and directed by Jonathan Betuel and starring Whoopi Goldberg. Though originally intended for theatrical release, the film went direct-to-video, and consequently became the most expensive direct-to-video film ever made at the time of its release.
The film was not well received, and saw Whoopi Goldberg being nominated for Worst Actress at the 1996 Golden Raspberry Awards (as well as for Bogus and Eddie), where she lost to Demi Moore for both The Juror and Striptease. Despite this, it was listed on the Billboard "Top Video Rentals" list for three weeks in August 1996, peaking at #34. It is the first, and so far only, direct-to-video movie to receive any sort of Razzie nomination.
In an alternate futuristic society where humans and anthropomorphic dinosaurs co-exist, a tough police detective named Katie Coltraine (Whoopi Goldberg) is paired with a Tyrannosaurus named Theodore Rex (George Newbern) to find the killer of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals leading them to a ruthless billionaire bent on killing off mankind by creating a new ice age.
Additional Voices provided by Billy Bowles, Rodger Bumpass, Jennifer Darling, Denise Dowse, Bill Farmer, Anne Lockhart, Sherry Lynn, Mickie McGowan, Patrick Pinney, and Philip Proctor.
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