Theatrical release poster with the film's original release year 1996.
Directed by
Peter Hyams
Screenplay by
Amy Holden Jones
John Raffo
Rick Jaffa Amanda Silver
Based on
Relic by
Douglas Preston
Lincoln Child
Produced by
Gale Anne Hurd
Sam Mercer
Starring
Penelope Ann Miller
Tom Sizemore
Linda Hunt
James Whitmore
Cinematography
Peter Hyams
Edited by
Steven Kemper
Music by
John Debney
Production companies
Cloud Nine Entertainment
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
Marubeni
Toho-Towa
Tele-München
BBC
Pacific Western Productions
Distributed by
Paramount Pictures
Release date
January 10, 1997 (1997-01-10)
Running time
110 minutes
Country
United States[1]
Language
English
Budget
$40–60 million[2][3]
Box office
$48 million[3][4]
The Relic is a 1997 American monster-horror film directed by Peter Hyams and based on the best-selling 1995 novel Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. The film stars Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, Linda Hunt, and James Whitmore. In the film, a detective and a biologist try to defeat a South American lizard-like monster which is on a killing spree in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.
The movie was shot in Chicago at the Field Museum of Natural History. Production was originally intended to be held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.[5] However, a deal could not be reached and, after taking interest in the film's premise, the Field Museum offered to let the studio shoot there instead. The film was the second on-screen collaboration between Hunt, Miller, and supporting actor Chi Muoi Lo, all three of whom also worked on the film Kindergarten Cop.
The film was released in the United States on January 10, 1997, by Paramount Pictures. It grossed over $48 million worldwide. It was the last film appearance of actress Audra Lindley.
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