Show Time: Tomorrow at 7:00 pm on HBO

Directed by: Steven Spielberg

Genre: Science Fiction

Duration: 1 hr 56 min

Starring: Dakota Fanning, Tom Cruise and Miranda Otto.

“They regarded our planet with envious eyes … ” and then moved to destroy it. H.G. Wells’ unforgettable novel about a hostile alien attack of earth is brilliantly remade in this eye-popping, nerve-shattering adaptation from Steven Spielberg.

Without warning, strange electrical storms plunder points in the ground across the globe, awakening hideous, massive, three-legged machines that have lain dormant for centuries.

Unimaginable chaos on a global scale ensues as the alien machines incinerate everything in their path with white-hot death rays. For divorced dockworker Ray Ferrier (three-time Golden Globe® winner Cruise, Collateral, Mission impossible:3), his only concern is keeping his two children Robbie and Rachel (Fanning, Hide And Seek, Dreamer) alive.

But can anyone hide from the sinister monsters as they harvest their human prey? Nominated for three 2005 Oscars® for Sound, Sound Editing and Visual Effects, Hollywood Reporter says “Spielberg more than does justice to the granddaddy of all alien invasion tales.”