The Relic is a 1997 science fiction/horror film directed by Peter Hyams and based on the best-selling novel Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. The film stars Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore and Linda Hunt. The original music score was composed by John Debney. The film is rated R for monster violence, gore, and language. John Whitney, an anthropologist for the Museum of Natural History in Chicago is studying a newly-discovered tribe in South America, and drinks a soup made for him by the tribesmen. A short time later, he is seen accosting the captain of a merchant ship, asking that... the shipment he has sent back to Chicago be unloaded from the ship. When the captain informs him that it's too late because the ship is about to leave, Whitney sneaks aboard. As the ship leaves the dock, Whitney searches through the cargo hold for his crates, crying out in despair when he does not find what he's looking for. Six weeks later, the ship arrives on the Illinois River, with its crew missing. Chicago PD homicide detective Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta is assigned to investigate the ship. His partner, Sgt.
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| Release date: | January 10, 1997 |
| Directed by: | Peter Hyams |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 110 Minutes |
| Producer: | Gale Anne Hurd, Sam Mercer |
| Editor: | Steven Kemper |
| Music by: | John Debney |
| Cinematography: | Peter Hyams |
| Screenplay by: | Amanda Silver, John Raffo, Rick Jaffa, Amy Holden Jones |
| Estimated budget: | $70,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | Relic |
| Genre: | Thriller |