The Day the World Ended

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The Day the World Ended
Directed by	Terence Gross
Produced by	Lou Arkoff Colleen Camp Stan Winston
Written by	Story: Brian King Teleplay: Max Enscoe Annie deYoung
Starring	Nastassja Kinski Randy Quaid Bobby Edner
Music by	Charles Bernstein
Cinematography	Mark Vargo
Editing by	Stephen Mark
Distributed by	Cinemax
Release date(s)	November 23, 2001
Running time	91 min
Country	United States
Language	English
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The Day the World Ended is a 2001 science fiction/horror television film and is the fourth in the Creature Features series broadcast on Cinemax. It stars Nastassja Kinski, Randy Quaid, and Bobby Edner.

While The Day the World Ended not a direct remake of the 1956 film of the same title, it utilizes the original film by showing segments on a TV seen within the story and showing that the VHS video box cover as part of the child's interest in aliens.

Tagline: Sometimes quiet little boys have terrifying secrets.

[edit] Plot

This film finds an alien, who is just misunderstood, bent on hunting down and devouring people. A school psychologist, Dr. Jennifer Stillman (Nastassja Kinski) investigates the death of a student's mother and finds the boy (Bobby Edner) believes he is the son of the being. His earthling father (Randy Quaid) is also a doctor who has the boy in his care and holds that it is all in the boy's imagination.

[edit] Cast

Actor/Actress	Role
Nastassja Kinski	Dr. Jennifer Stillman
Randy Quaid	Dr. Michael McCann
Bobby Edner	Ben Miller/McCann
Harry Groener	Sheriff Ken
Lee de Broux	Cook Harlan (as Lee DeBroux)
Stephen Tobolowsky	Principal Ed Turner
Debra Christofferson	Nurse Della Divelbuss
Nik Dressbach	Buzzcut
Brandon de Paul	Frankie Carter
Kate Fuglei	Waitress Carlita
Neil Vipond	The Judge
Brian Steele	The Creature
David Getz	Deputy #1
Kathryn Fiore	Maggie Miller
David Doty	Nice Guy