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Release Date: Friday, January 10th 1997,

Penelope Ann Miller stars as Dr. Margo Green, an evolutionary biologist at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History who receives a shipment of artifacts from a colleague performing fieldwork in Brazil. Among the contents are leaves containing a rare fungus that, unknown to Green or anyone else, attracts the palate of a rapidly mutating, lizard-like monster called Kothoga that has stowed away on a Brazilian freighter and has found a subterranean route into the museum from Lake Michigan.

Before long, several museum employees have become decapitated snack food for the beast that prefers to dine on human hypothalamuses and pituitary glands. Despite dire warnings from the museum staff, a gruff coroner (Audra Lindley) and the investigating detective, Lt. Vincent D'Agosta (Tom Sizemore), the Windy City's oblivious mayor orders a black-tie museum fundraiser to proceed. During the event, the building's high-tech security system locks Green, D'Agosta, the mayor, and many chi-chi party guests in with the hungry animal, forcing everyone to attempt an escape through an underground waterway with which Kothoga is all too familiar.

Director: Peter Hyams
Cast: Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, Linda Hunt, James Whitmore, Clayton Rohner, Chi Moui Lo, Thomas Ryan, Robert Lesser, Diane Robin, Lewis Van Bergen, Constance Towers, Francis X. McCarthy, Audra Lindley, John Kapelos, Tico Wells, Mike Bacarella, Gene Davis, John DiSanti, David Proval, Dave Graubart, Ronald Joshua Scott, Jophery C. Brown, Joseph Carroll Thomas, Montrose Hughes, Santos Morales, Ralph Seymour, LaDonna Tittle, Eddie Jemison, David Hollander, Amanda Ingber, Katharine Mitchell, Candy Coburn, Kurt Naebig, Don MacLellan, Marc P. Shelton, Don Harvey, Ken Magee, Aaron Lustig, Kent George, Lynn A. Henderson, Ron Cummins, Matthew Daniel Mosoes, Elwood Forbes, Dina Blair, Mark Lake, Ned Schmidtke, Vincent Hammond, Brian Steele, Gary A. Hecker, Daniel Guevara, Ramon Ramierez, Henry Rey, Gerardo Salinas, Martin S. Tellez, Craig Hosking, Dirk Vahle

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