DVD 124 min. IMDB 6.6

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Adventure

Brendan Fraser	Richard 'Rick' O'Connell
Rachel Weisz	Evelyn 'Evie' Carnahan
John Hannah	Jonathan Carnahan
Arnold Vosloo	Lord Imhotep
Kevin J. O'Connor	Beni Gabor
Oded Fehr	Ardeth Bay
Jonathan Hyde	Dr. Allen Chamberlain
Bernard Fox	Captain Winston Havlock
Erick Avari	Dr. Terrence Bey
Stephen Dunham	Mr. Henderson

Regisseur	Stephen Sommers
Producent	Sean Daniel; James Jacks
Schrijver	Stephen Sommers; Lloyd Fonvielle; Nina Wilcox Putnam; Richard Schayer

In ancient Egypt, high priest Imhotep started a forbidden relationship with Anck-su-namun, Pharaoh Seti's Mistress. When Seti finds out about what's going on, Imhotep and his loved one stab him, but can't escape the trustworthy guards: Anck-su-namnun chooses to commit suicide while Imhotep is bestowed with the Hom-Dai, the most feared curse of all: He is mummified alive in Hamunaptra, the city of the Dead. More than thirty-six centuries later, in 1923, to be exact, adventurer Rick leads Egyptologist Evelyn and her brother Johnathan to mysterious Hamunaptra. While Johnathan is keen on finding the legendary Egyptian treasures, Evelyn wants to search for the Book of the Living, which would clarify a lot in historical knowledge about the ancient Egyptians. Unfortunately, they and a rivaling group of careless American adventurers free Imhotep's mummy from his eternal prison. Now, with the ancient and quite agile high priest on the loose, the adventurers and scientists face not only a dangerous enemy, but also a massive threat to today's world: Imhotep wants to bring Anck-su-namun back to life by using Evelyn's body, but he also wants to rid the world of the disbelieving crowd of democracy-supporters to be able to enforce his tyrannic dictatorship.