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Film · 0 connectionsThe 5th Wave (2016)
- Action
- Adventure
- Science Fiction
- 112 min
- 12 age guide
- ★ 5.9/10 from 6,176 ratings
16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.
Directed byJ Blakeson
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