MOVIE · 1999

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

ActionAdventureFantasySci-Fi136 min

When Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi are sent to handle a crisis surrounding Naboo, the mission becomes an escape with young Queen Amidala and a detour to Tatooine, where they meet a slave boy named Anakin Skywalker. Liam Neeson is Qui-Gon, the seasoned Jedi who senses something unusual in the child, while Ewan McGregor's Obi-Wan is still early in his own path. As the dispute reaches the Senate and signs of the long-absent Sith begin to surface, George Lucas opens the prequel era with galactic politics, desert worlds, and the discovery of a future central to the fate of the Jedi.