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Release Date:
14 January 2000 (USA)
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In the farthest reaches of space, something has gone terribly wrong. more
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Supernova chronicles the search and rescue patrol of a medical ship in deep space in the early 22nd...
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Rescue
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Distress Signal
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Mining
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Deep Space
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Explosion
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Angela Bassett Attacks Hollywood Treatment of Older Women
(From WENN. 21 August 2002)
Vin Diesel's Perfect Act
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Vin Diesel's Perfect Act
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First Latino In Space
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | James Spader | ... | Nick Vanzant |
 | Angela Bassett | ... | Dr. Kaela Evers |
 | Robert Forster | ... | A.J. Marley |
 | Lou Diamond Phillips | ... | Yerzy Penalosa |
 | Peter Facinelli | ... | Karl Larson |
 | Robin Tunney | ... | Danika Lund |
 | Wilson Cruz | ... | Benj Sotomejor |
| Eddy Rice Jr. | ... | Flyboy |
| Knox White | ... | Troy Larson (as Knox Grantham White) |
| Kerrigan Mahan | ... | Troy Larson (voice) |
| Vanessa Marshall | ... | Sweetie (voice) |
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Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action violence and sensuality/nudity.; Rated R for sexuality and some violence. (edited version)
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90 min | USA:91 min (R-rated version)
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Color (DeLuxe)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Iceland:12 |
South Korea:15 |
Philippines:PG-13 |
New Zealand:M |
Australia:M |
Finland:K-14 |
France:U |
Germany:16 |
Ireland:15 |
Mexico:B |
Netherlands:16 |
Norway:15 |
Singapore:M18 |
Sweden:11 |
UK:15 |
USA:R (video rating) |
Canada:G (Quebec) |
USA:PG-13 (certificate #35937)
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Originally developed in 1988 by director William Malone (House on Haunted Hill (1999)) as "Dead Star" with paintings by H.R. Giger and a plot that had been called "Hellraiser (1987) in outer space".
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Continuity: At the end of the movie one of Nick's eyes is blue and one is brown. When they show him again from the side the other eye is blue.
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Dr. Kaela Evers:
Whoever they are, they're as smart as God and a lot less nice.
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Features Trap Happy (1946)
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When a film gets held up for release and the directors refuse to take credit for the final product, in fact if there's more than one director that can be taken as a sign that the product is a Thanksgiving delight. When you've got all those these happening as they are in Supernova, you know Thanksgiving is coming early.
The film is a lot like a Doctor Who episode and I kept hoping Tom Baker and a companion would drop in with the TARDIS and straighten everything out. The film did need it.
A medical rescue vessel, a futuristic space ambulance if you will gets a distress call from a mining planet lots of light years away from Earth. Off into hyper drive they go and when there they meet a rather strange young man played by Peter Facinelli who's got a strange kind of element he's found and wanting to take it back to Earth.
He's determined to get it there and when James Spader the captain says no, Facinelli starts killing everyone around him. That element is making him both younger and stronger so those that remain have a fight on their hands.
I happen to meet cast member Wilson Cruz at a conference about seven years ago and he said while he was not exactly thrilled with the final product in Supernova, he said the film was memorable to him because he became the first Latino in space. And the first openly gay man at the same time. He does have the best dialog in the film with a supercomputer along the lines of 2001, A Space Odyssey's HAL. Wilson's computer is called SWEETIE and she has a sultry feminine voice built in.
Supernova will not make anyone's list of the greatest science fiction films ever done. Or even the 10 best in the new 21st century.