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Release year: 1985

Storyline

During a long space war, the lives of two wounded enemies become dependent on their ability to forgive and to trust each other.

Top credits

Directors

Wolfgang Petersen

Writers

Cast

Dennis Quaid — Davidge
Louis Gossett Jr. — Drac
Brion James — Stubbs
Richard Marcus — Arnold

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Did you know

• Louis Gossett Jr. said in a television interview that he had talked while gargling saliva as a kid as one of those kid things. He told Wolfgang Petersen that he thought that it would add a good touch to his character. Gossett performed the odd vocalizations all by himself (no mouth prosthetics or post-production effects), and often does "the Drac voice" at convention appearances.

• According to Louis Gossett, Jr., the Drac language was created from scratch. Much of it was Russian, pronounced in reverse.

• Author Barry Longyear reported at a convention that the studio insisted on adding a subplot involving a mine, thinking the audience would not realize that the "Mine" in the title was a possessive (as in "My Enemy") rather than an object.