Plot
The 5th Wave follows 16-year-old Cassie Sullivan and her family. Waves of alien strategic invasion have devastated the world and Earth's population is on the verge of extinction. Humankind is knocked back to the Stone Age. Cassie's mother is dead from a modified plague by the Others (the Aliens). Cassie's remaining family move into a neighboring refuge camp. The army comes in and says they are there to help. However, the army buses the kid out of the camp and promises to bus the adults out next.
Publication Information
- Title : The 5th Wave (Film)
- Directed by : J Blakeson
- Produced by : Graham King, Tobey Maguire, Lynn Harris, Matthew Plouffe
- Screenplay by : Susannah Grant, Akiva Goldsman, Jeff Pinkner
- Based on : The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
- Starring : Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Robinson, Ron Livingston, Maggie Siff, Alex Roe, Maria Bello, Maika Monroe, Liev Schreiber
- Music by : Henry Jackman
- Cinematography : Enrique Chediak
- Edited by : Paul Rubell
- Production companies : GK Films, Material Pictures
- Distributed by : Columbia Pictures
- Release dates : January 22, 2016 (United States)
- Running time : 112 minutes
- Country : United States
- Language : English
Cassie gets separated from her brother. Her brother is taken by the Army for care and protection. Her father and other survivors in Ohio are killed in a massacre by the army. Cassie scavenges her way through to the base to meet her 5-year-old brother, Sam. Cassie is saved from an enemy sniper by Evan Walker. Cassie falls in love with him and later learns he is an Other in humanoid form. Cassie learns that Colonel Vosch and the Army is actually the Others and the fifth wave they have planned is to use children to eliminate the rest of the earth's survivors by misleading them.
Cast
- Chloë Grace Moretz as Cassie Sullivan
- Nick Robinson as Ben Parish/Zombie
- Ron Livingston as Oliver Sullivan
- Maggie Siff as Lisa Sullivan
- Alex Roe as Evan Walker
- Maria Bello as Sergeant Reznik
- Maika Monroe as Ringer
- Liev Schreiber as Colonel Vosch
- Zackary Arthur as Sammy Sullivan
- Tony Revolori as Dumbo
- Talitha Bateman as Teacup
