The Invasion

The Invasion (2007) Directed by Oliver Hershbeigel and James McTeigue

This remake of the 1956 classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers owes much to the subsequent remakes; the 1978 superlative remake, and the more forgettable 1993 remake, Body Snatchers. The original featured the now infamous Pod People, with large vegetative seed pods that produced the clones. In 78 the pods had shrunk to small parasitic flowers, and now the alien invaders are a virus.

The Plot
Dr. Carol Bennell (Nicole Kidman) is a psychologist. She notices several strange phenomena, changes in people's behavior; her son finds what appears to be a skin sample in his Halloween candy, and other oddities. She takes the skin to a medical friend, Ben Driscoll (Daniel Craig) and asks to have it analyzed.

Her life continues. She drops her son Oliver (Jackson Bond) off for a visit with his estranged father Tucker Kaufman (Jeremy Northam). She attends a posh dinner party at the embassy, chatting with the Russian ambassador, and his counterpart. But she notices more and more bizarre behavior. A homeless man, having a seizure, people acting strangely, either upset, or lacking emotions, gatherings of disparate people, very calm, very still. Her clients begin to act strangely. Some seem cured. One woman with a very volatile husband reports her husband isn't her husband; he doesn't fight with her anymore.

This progresses until she begins to see certain things like people in emotional distress being carried away. She sees a woman frantically trying to warn people that something is wrong, in traffic in a tunnel. She sees her hit by a car, and moves to help. A cop warns her away. She explains she is a doctor. He orders her away anyway. She asks where she should make her report. He informs her he took down her plate, and when they want her, they will summon her.

Someone tries to gain entrance to her home posing as a census taker. When she did not take the chain off the door, he tried to force his way in. When thwarted, he just calmly left.