Interstellar (movie)

Interstellar
Interstellar
Directed by	Christopher Nolan
Written by	Jonathan Nolan; Christopher Nolan;
Produced by	Emma Thomas; Christopher Nolan; Lynda Obst;
Starring	Matthew McConaughey; Anne Hathaway; Jessica Chastain; Bill Irwin; Ellen Burstyn; Michael Caine;
Cinematography	Hoyte van Hoytema
Edited by	Lee Smith
Music by	Hans Zimmer
Production; companies	Paramount Pictures; Warner Bros. Pictures; Legendary Pictures; Syncopy; Lynda Obst Productions;
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures; (North America); Warner Bros. Pictures (International);
Release dates	October 26, 2014 (TCL Chinese Theatre); November 5, 2014 (United States); November 7, 2014 (United Kingdom);
Running time	169 minutes
Countries	United States; United Kingdom;
Language	English
Budget	$165 million
Box office	$696.3 million

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Interstellar is a 2014 British-American epic science fiction movie directed, co-written and produced by Christopher Nolan. It stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, Michael Caine, Mackenzie Foy, Matt Damon, Casey Affleck, and John Lithgow. It was released on November 5, 2014.

Plot

In the mid-21st century, humanity is under threat of extinction from dust storms resulting in crops dying, Joseph Cooper, a widowed, former NASA pilot who raises Murph, his daughter and Tom, his son on a farm.

After a dust storm hits there town and farm, an open window results in a strange pattern being created, Murph finds its a code and decodes it and arrives at a secret NASA facility, before there arrested. The facilities' head professor, John Brand explains to Murph that 48 years earlier, a mysterious wormhole appeared near Saturn and they believe it leads to habitable planets orbiting a black hole names Gargantua.

An expedition named Lazarus, was sent and passed through the wormhole with NASA explorers and are reporting desirable, results from 3 plants - Miller, Mann and Edmunds are looking positive. Cooper enlists to pilot the 2nd expedition Endurance, which aims to colonize one of the three planets using frozen embryos while on earth the Professor and the facility work to solve an issue for earths mass exodus.

Murph, sadenned refuses to see Cooper despite Coopers promise to come home and leaves a watch to compare there relative time when the 2 reunite. Along side Cooper, 5 crew members come, Amelia Brand the daughter of Proffessor Brand, Romilly and Doyle and 2 robots TARS and CASE, they launch on a 2 year voyager to the wormhole crossing through it.

In the new galaxy, Cooper, Doyle and Brand uses Endurances landers to visit Millers planet but discovers the wreckage of Millers expedition, the planets proximity to Gargantua causes massive tidal waves and severe time dialtion. Unfortunately, during their escape Dolly is killed by a wave, once back on Endurance its revealed there 3 hour stay was 23 years long as a result of time dialation.

Cooper watches as his son, Tom grows up, marry, has his own son and lose him when no longer sending any messages, eventually Cooper finds a message from Murph, now an adult and the same age of Cooper. Murph now works with Professor Brand as a scientist, meanwhile on Endurance it revealed they only have enough fuel for one planet, Cooper and Romily decide to visit Mann's planets despite Brands objections.

They visit Mann's planet but unfortunately enroute, a message reveals Professor Brand dies, on earth on Brands deathbed he confesses that the exodus plan couldn't be solved and humanity is doomed. they reach Manns planet and wake the explorer Mann, who explain colonization is possible on the surface despite the harsh cold environment, but during a scouting mission Mann, attempts to kill Cooper but fails and reveals the data was false in his hopes he could be rescued, he steals and a booby trap set by Mann kills Romilly.

Brand rescues Cooper, and returns to Endurance, when Mann docks, he rushes it causing an accident killing Mann and damaging Endurance causing a spin

References

↑ "Interstellar". British Board of Film Classification. October 20, 2014. Archived from the original on October 20, 2014. Retrieved October 20, 2014.
1 2 "Film: Interstellar". LUMIERE. Archived from the original on June 23, 2018. Retrieved November 8, 2017.
1 2 "Interstellar (2014)". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on March 16, 2015. Retrieved August 29, 2015.

Other websites

Interstellar on IMDb
Interstellar at AllMovie
Interstellar at the TCM Movie Database
Interstellar at the American Film Institute Catalog
Interstellar at Metacritic
Interstellar at Rotten Tomatoes
Interstellar at Box Office Mojo

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[BBFC-Oct2014-1] "Interstellar". British Board of Film Classification. October 20, 2014. Archived from the original on October 20, 2014. Retrieved October 20, 2014.

[LUMIERE-2] 1 2 "Film: Interstellar". LUMIERE. Archived from the original on June 23, 2018. Retrieved November 8, 2017.

[BOM-3] 1 2 "Interstellar (2014)". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on March 16, 2015. Retrieved August 29, 2015.

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