Stranded (2001)

A team of astronauts on the first mission to Mars crashes onto the surface, losing contact with Earth. With no other recourse, and help millions of miles away, the crew is forced to make ... See full summary »

Director:

María Lidón

Writer:

Juan Miguel Aguilera (screenplay)

Stars:

Vincent Gallo, Maria de Medeiros, Joaquim de Almeida

3 wins & 3 nominations.

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Vincent Gallo	...	Luca Baglioni
Maria de Medeiros	...	Jenny Johnson
Joaquim de Almeida	...	Fidel Rodrigo
María Lidón	...	Susana Sánchez
Danel Aser	...	Herbert Sagan
Johnny Ramone	...	Lowell
José Sancho	...	Andre Vishniac
Paul Gibert	...	Entrevistador

Storyline

A team of astronauts on the first mission to Mars crashes onto the surface, losing contact with Earth. With no other recourse, and help millions of miles away, the crew is forced to make desperate choices in order to stay alive. Will they be able to survive as the minutes slip away?

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Plot Keywords:

mars | astronaut | earth | lack of oxygen | outer space | 

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Taglines:

150 million miles from hope.

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Genres:

Drama | Sci-Fi

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for brief language

Details

Official Sites:

Production company (Spanish or English)

Country:

Spain

Language:

English

Release Date:

12 April 2002 (Spain)

Also Known As:

The Shelter

Filming Locations:

El Golfo, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain

Box Office

Budget:

$4,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Niggeman IndieFilms S.L.

Technical Specs

Runtime:

95 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

The space helmets aren't really airtight. When Rodrigo and Sanchez are in the Martian maze and get to the hall where there is oxygen, they just lift the bottom of the masks, which are just resting on the fabric covering their necks. After Johnson and Baglioni leave the spaceship, Baglioni turns slightly and you can see through the gap in the mask.

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Quotes

[first lines]
News Reporter: It's 298 days since the first manned mission to Mars left the Alpha International Space Station. The spaceship Aries and her crew of 7 men and women from different nations are now going into orbit around the red planet.

User Reviews

"Mission to Mars" wishes it were this film.

I wish there were more science-fiction films like this one being made today.

I can't understand all the negativity towards this flick! Here's a modest little film that doesn't depend on huge special effects and gratuitous action sequences in order to tell a cracking little story, with enough twists and turns to keep an old sci-fi fan like myself guessing until the end.

The premise is certainly nothing we haven't had before (think "Mission to Mars", or "Robinson Crusoe on Mars"), but this particular storyline was dense and well paced, no loose ends, everything for a purpose.

The other aspect of the movie I liked was the atmosphere that it managed to build through, what I think, are all the things that people have criticized it for.

It had a sense of calm, other-worldliness, to which the non-US accents, and at times off-beat delivery by some of the actors contributed. The dialog is more naturalistic than in a big-budget Hollywood action sci-fi flick, and this may be why some people found it "weird".

Some of the dialog was a bit corny, but I think deliberately - a little tip of the hat to earlier tales of that ilk (one of the characters conspicuously starts quoting from "John Carter of Mars" at one point, and we feel we're in an entirely different movie for a moment)

The sedate narration from the main actress, the gorgeous locations shots, and even the interior of the Martian complex with its mysterious technology, all contributed to a dream-like and alien quality invoked by this movie.

Great fun!

Rating - 10 out of 10.