The Fountain (2006)

Director:

Darren Aronofsky

Writers (WGA):

Darren Aronofsky (screenplay)
Darren Aronofsky (story) ...
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Release Date:

22 November 2006 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

What If You Could Live Forever?

Plot:

Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.

Plot Keywords:

Spear | Brain Tumor | Hospital | Maya | Spain

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 6 wins & 14 nominations

Cast

Hugh Jackman	...	Tomas / Tommy / Tom Creo
Rachel Weisz	...	Isabel / Izzi Creo
Ellen Burstyn	...	Dr. Lillian Guzetti
Mark Margolis	...	Father Avila
Stephen McHattie	...	Grand Inquisitor Silecio
Fernando Hernandez	...	Lord of Xibalba
Cliff Curtis	...	Captain Ariel
Sean Patrick Thomas	...	Antonio
Donna Murphy	...	Betty
Ethan Suplee	...	Manny
Richard McMillan	...	Henry
Lorne Brass	...	Dr. Alan Lipper
Abraham Aronofsky	...	Lab Technician
Renee Asofsky	...	Lab Technician
Anish Majumdar	...	Dr. Spencer
Janique Kearns	...	Young Nurse
Boyd Banks	...	Dominican Monk
Alexander Bisping	...	Foot Soldier Del Toro
Kevin Kelsall	...	Foot Soldier Rivera
Patrick Vandal	...	Foot Soldier Galleano
Marcello Bezina	...	Foot Soldier Borjes
Hugo Salvador Gutierrez Aguilar	...	Mayan Warrior
Eric Carmelo Valenzuela Batz	...	Mayan Warrior
Elfego Vinicio Pena Castellanos	...	Mayan Warrior
Jose Maria Tol Chan	...	Mayan Warrior
Jose Panjoj Cortez	...	Mayan Warrior
Juan Salvador Lares	...	Mayan Warrior
Jose Alfredo Conoz Macario	...	Mayan Warrior
Tomas Tol Nix	...	Mayan Warrior
Luis Alfredo Yac Noj	...	Mayan Warrior
Mateo Martin Perez	...	Mayan Warrior
Edson Vasquez Pixabaj	...	Mayan Warrior
Marvin Leonardo Raxtun Raxtun	...	Mayan Warrior
Tomas Morales Sacquic	...	Mayan Warrior
Santos Ajic Sapon	...	Mayan Warrior
Xaijil Sicajan	...	Mayan Warrior
Manuel Antonio Salvador Tol	...	Mayan Warrior
Tomas Salvador Tol	...	Mayan Warrior
Tomas Augustin Canil Ventura	...	Mayan Warrior
Carlos Enrique Ramos Xalcut	...	Mayan Warrior
Octavio Guadelupe Zabala Xitamul	...	Mayan Warrior

Directed by
Darren Aronofsky

Writing credits (WGA)
Darren Aronofsky		(screenplay)
Darren Aronofsky		(story) &
Ari Handel		(story)

Produced by
Ari Handel	....	associate producer
Arnon Milchan	....	producer
Iain Smith	....	producer
Eric Watson	....	producer
Nick Wechsler	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Clint Mansell

Cinematography by
Matthew Libatique		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Jay Rabinowitz

Casting by
Mary Vernieu

Production Design by
James Chinlund

Art Direction by
Isabelle Guay		(supervising art director)
Nicolas Lepage
Jean-Pierre Paquet
Michele Laliberte		(uncredited)

Set Decoration by
Martine Giguère-Kazemirchuk		(as Martine Kazemirchuk)
Daniel Hamelin
Philippe Lord

Costume Design by
Renée April

Makeup Department
Jocelyne Bellemare	....	key makeup artist
Julie Casault	....	key makeup artist
Judy Chin	....	makeup designer
Nelson Dacosta	....	special makeup effects artist (as Nelson Da Costa)
Jean-Jacques Dion	....	key hair stylist
Bruno Gatien	....	special effects makeup artist
Franck Gauthier	....	special makeup effects artist (as François Gauthier)
C.J. Goldman	....	special makeup effects artist
Daniel Harding	....	special makeup effects artist
Martin Jutras	....	special makeup effects artist
Martin Lapointe	....	daily hair dresser
Jonathan Lavallée	....	special makeup effects artist (as Jonathan Lavalleé)
Paul LeBlanc	....	hair designer
Adrien Morot	....	key special effects makeup artist
Sylvania Yau	....	special makeup effects artist
Christophe Giraud	....	assistant makeup artist (uncredited)
Christine Larocque	....	wig maker (uncredited)
Catherine Lavoie	....	assistant makeup artist (uncredited)
Nathalie Trépanier	....	assistant makeup artist (uncredited)

Production Management
Didier Communaux	....	unit manager
Bill Draper	....	executive in charge of production
Irene Litinsky	....	production supervisor
Ric Nish	....	unit production manager
Sandrin Olivier	....	assistant unit manager
Simon Paquin	....	unit manager
Evan Tussman	....	post-production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Anabelle Berkani	....	third assistant director
Johanne Caporicci	....	second assistant director
Jeremy Dawson	....	second unit director
Robbie Ditchburn	....	first assistant director: second unit (as Robert Ditchburn)
Myron Hoffert	....	first assistant director
Emilie Malo	....	third assistant director: second unit

Art Department
Vincent Aird	....	assistant set decorator
John Alexander	....	carpenter
Patrick Ally	....	carpenter
Frédéric Amblard	....	set designer
Jean-Marc André	....	sculptor
Natacha Antiglio	....	art department coordinator
Serge Archambault	....	head scenic painter
Martine Bacon	....	scenic painter
Vincent Gauvin Badeau	....	greensman (as Vincent Gauvin)
Mario Barriere	....	scenic technician
Gilles Beauchamp	....	sculptor
Donald Beaulieu	....	scenic technician: greens
Claude Beaupré	....	scenic technician
Michel Bernard	....	sculptor
André Boisvert	....	sculptor
Mathieu Boisvert	....	carpenter
Laurent Bonnet	....	sculptor
Ghislain Boucher	....	carpenter
Patrick Boucher	....	carpenter
Marie-Noel Bréard	....	scenic painter
Alain Brochu	....	key carpenter
Michel Brochu	....	construction supervisor
Marie Brodeur	....	sculptor
François Cardon	....	carpenter (as François Cardin)
Richard Cardon	....	carpenter (as Richard Cardin)
Annie Carpentier	....	assistant property buyer
Simon Chamberland	....	property master
Frederic Chamoro	....	scenic technician: greens (as Frèdèric Chamorro)
Judith Charron	....	assistant greens
Marc Chicoine	....	sculptor
Marc Chow	....	sculptor
Antoine Connoly	....	on-set painter (as Antoine Connolly)
Isabelle Côté	....	graphic designer
Stephen Craig	....	assistant scenic painter
Edith Croft	....	sculptor
Yuan-Frédéric D'Amour	....	greensman (as Yan-Fredéric D'Amour)
Gilles David	....	sculptor
Marco Decloquement	....	scenic technician: greens (as Marc Décloquemont)
Christian Robert de Massy	....	illustrator
Louis Frederic Denomme	....	scenic technician: greens (as Louis-Frédéric Dénommé)
Katia Kim Depatie	....	second assistant props (as Katia-Kim Depatie)
Rémy Deroy	....	carpenter
Jean Dery	....	scenic painter (as Jean Déry)
Luc De Schutter	....	scenic painter
Sylvain Despretz	....	concept artist
Jean Desroches	....	scenic technician
Derek Doucette	....	sculptor
Francine Dubois	....	sculptor
Mario Dufour	....	assistant greens (as Mario duFour)
Alexandre Duhamel	....	assistant sculptor
Annick Fleury	....	sculptor
Manon Fontaine	....	scenic painter
André Fournier	....	sculptor
Lucie Fournier	....	head sculptor
Maxime Gagné	....	carpenter
Serge Gagne	....	carpenter (as Serge Gagné)
Bernard Gagnon	....	carpenter
Normand Gagnon	....	carpenter
Daniel Gauthier	....	sculptor
Martin Gauthier	....	first assistant props
Vincent Gingras-Liberali	....	set designer (as Vincent Liberali)
Vanessa Godin	....	model maker
Geoffroy Gosselin	....	scenic technician
Ronny Gosselin	....	model maker
Simon Guilbault	....	model maker
Olivier Guy	....	carpenter
Sean Hargreaves	....	illustrator
Marc Harvey	....	carpenter
Yannick Hébert	....	carpenter
Paul Hotte	....	key set decorator
Geof Isherwood	....	storyboard artist: Montreal (as Geoffrey Isherwood)
Patrice Jacques	....	model maker
Maryse Labrie	....	scenic painter
Paul Lacerte	....	scenic painter
Caroline Lachance	....	art department assistant
Denise Lafontaine	....	scenic painter
Michele Laliberte	....	art director: greens (as Michèle Laliberté)
Annie Lamarre	....	assistant art department coordinator
Helene Lamarre	....	art department coordinator (as Hélène Lamarre)
Brent Lambert	....	set designer
Michel R. Lambert	....	scenic technician (as Michel Lambert)
Michel Landry	....	scenic technician: greens
Martin Laneuville	....	greens: tree ship
Félix Larivière	....	set designer (as Felix Lariviere)
Jean Larose	....	scenic painter
François Lattaro	....	graphic artist
Marco Lavallée	....	scenic technician
Bruno Lavoie	....	scenic painter
Jean-Pierre Lavoie	....	set designer
Marie-France Lavoie	....	scenic painter
Patrick Lee	....	sculptor
Raymond J. Légaré	....	key greensman
Hélene Lemieux	....	sculptor
Gilles Léonard	....	scenic technician
Alain Lepage	....	carpenter
Richard Lepage	....	carpenter
Josée Létourneau	....	scenic painter (as José Létourneau)
David Lévesaue	....	assistant greens (as David Levesque)
Oscar Lopez	....	scenic technician: greens
Larkin MacLeod	....	scenic technician: greens
Denise Martel	....	sculptor
Daniel Martin	....	carpenter
Sylvie Massicotte	....	carpenter
Chris Wolfgang Mauch	....	storyboard artist: New York
Stephan McKenzie	....	on-set dresser
Mélanie McNicoll	....	sculptor (as Mélanie McNichol)
Yves Mercier	....	assistant sculptor
Jean-François Merlot	....	scenic painter
Ricardo Montemiglio	....	on-set dresser
Francis Morin	....	scenic technician: greens
Vidar Neuhof	....	set property master
Vasil Nikolov	....	scenic painter
Guy Paquin	....	sculptor
Camille Parent	....	assistant art director
Simon Pépin	....	carpenter
Laurent Pereira	....	scenic painter
Eric Perreauly	....	carpenter (as Eric Perreault)
Éric Philippe	....	sculptor (as Eric Philippe)
Patrick Philippe	....	sculptor
Éric Plante	....	scenic technician
Dominique Pottier	....	scenic painter
Isabelle Poulin	....	greens: petites maines
Michel Richard	....	sculptor
Benoit Robert	....	scenic technician (as Benoît Robert)
Benoit Robitaille	....	swing gang (as Benoît Robitaille)
Mario Santini	....	sculptor
Andrew Semple	....	special prop builder
Alain Senécal	....	scenic technician (as Alain Sénécal)
Jennifer Small	....	greens: tree ship
Gilles St. Amand	....	sculptor
Scott Thompson	....	sculptor
Alex Touikan	....	set designer
Pascal Tremblay	....	scenic technician: greens
Louis Trudeau	....	scenic painter
Louise Trudeau	....	scenic painter
André Valade	....	assistant property buyer
Jose Fernando Varela	....	assistant set decorator (as José F. Varela)
Andrew Wendel	....	storyboard artist
Kent Williams	....	visual development reference
Emmanuel Yurcotte	....	carpenter (as Emmanuel Turcotte)
Paul Zacharias	....	scenic painter
James Clyne	....	concept designer (uncredited)
Michael Anthony Jackson	....	storyboard artist: Montreal (uncredited)

Sound Department
Steve Baine	....	foley artist
Stephen Barden	....	sound designer
Stephen Barden	....	supervising sound editor
Jean-Philippe Bérubé	....	cable operator
Alex Bullick	....	first assistant sound editor
Brian Emrich	....	sound designer
Brian Emrich	....	supervising sound editor
Sue Fawcett	....	second assistant sound editor (as Susan Fawcett)
Maxime Ferland	....	boom operator
Nelson Ferreira	....	dialogue editor
Nick Foley	....	adr recordist
Gina Gyles	....	foley assistant
Craig Henighan	....	sound designer
Craig Henighan	....	supervising sound editor
Matthew McKenzie	....	adr recordist
Mike Patrick	....	sound recordist
Peter Persaud	....	foley recordist
Jill Purdy	....	adr editor
Patrick Rousseau	....	sound mixer
Ted Swanscott	....	adr mixer
Dominick Tavella	....	sound re-recording mixer
Marilee Yorston	....	foley assistant

Special Effects by
Marc Auclair	....	special effects assistant
Marc Bienvenu	....	special effects technician
Gaspar Brabant	....	special effects best boy
Kevin Carter	....	special effects contact lenses
Yvon Charbonneau	....	special effects technician
Georges Chartrand	....	special effects technician
Pierre Côté	....	special effects technician
Louis Craig	....	special effects coordinator
Thierry Craig	....	special effects technician
Stéphane Dalpé	....	special effects
François Dion	....	special effects assistant
Mario Dumont	....	special effects floor manager
André Essiembre	....	special effects assistant
André Fortin	....	special effects technician
Stephen Gilbert	....	special effects coordinator
Normand Gobeille	....	special effects technician
Bernard Guay	....	special effects assistant
Éric Hébert	....	special effects technician
André Laforest	....	special effects technician
Jacques Langlois	....	special effects technician
Denis Lavigne	....	special effects
David Loveday	....	special effects technician
Vincent Marion	....	special effects assistant
Yves Martel	....	special effects assistant
Louis Pedneault	....	special effects technician

Visual Effects by
Laurent M. Abecassis	....	visual effects supervisor: Digital Dimension
Ohkba Ameziane-Hassani	....	visual effects Mel script camera rig: Mokko Studio
Greg Astles	....	digital compositor: Intelligent Creatures Inc.
Colleen Bachman	....	visual effects production supervisor
Trevor Bajus	....	digital artist
Darcy Bangsund	....	systems administrator: Intelligent Creatures Inc.
Danny Bergeron	....	general manager: Mokko Studio
Renaud Bergeron	....	3D artist: Digital Dimension
Renaud Bergeron	....	rendering
Derek Bird	....	digital compositor: LOOK! Effects
Greg M. Boettcher	....	lead model maker: New Deal Studios
Jeff Bruneel	....	digital compositor: Technicolor
Eve Brunet	....	line producer: Buzz Image Group
Chad Buehler	....	digital compositor
Pauline Burns	....	associate visual effects producer: Intelligent Creatures Inc.
Neil Thomas Buttermore	....	pre-visualization artist
Nicolas Cadorette	....	digital compositor
Misty Carlisle	....	production assistant
Patrick Clancey	....	digital opticals
Dug Claxton	....	digital compositor
Patrick Coffey	....	digital effects designer and lead compositor: Intelligent Creatures Inc.
Michael Collins	....	digital compositor: LOOK! Effects
Kelli Conley	....	studio manager: Giant Killer Robots
Keith Cooper	....	visual effects
Marc Cote	....	motion control operator
Tony Cutrono	....	miniatures director of photography: New Deal Studios
Jeremy Dawson	....	visual effects designer
Simon De Glanville	....	assistant cameraman
Thai Son Doan	....	visual effects animator
Amélie Dubois	....	senior paint/roto artist
Danny Duchesneau	....	digital compositor
Peter Dydo	....	3D artist: Intelligent Creatures Inc.
Henrik Fett	....	visual effects supervisor: LOOK Effects, Inc.
Jenny Foster	....	visual effects producer: LOOK Effects
Derry Frost	....	head of production: Amalgamated Pixels
Shannon Blake Gans	....	visual effects executive producer: New Deal Studios Inc.
Raymond Gieringer	....	visual effects supervisor: Intelligent Creatures Inc.
Benoit Girard	....	visual effects executive producer: Digital Dimension
Olivier Goulet	....	3D artist: Buzz Image Group
Charles Granger	....	lead compositor: Digital Dimension
Matthew Gratzner	....	visual effects supervisor: New Deal Studios, Inc.
Jamie Hallett	....	associate visual effects supervisor: Intelligent Creatures Inc.
Jamie Hallett	....	on-set visual effects supervisor: Intelligent Creatures
Gunnar Hansen	....	visual effects supervisor: Klon Films
Michael Hatton	....	visual effects technical advisor: Intelligent Creatures Inc.
Aaron Haye	....	model crew chief: New Deal Studios
Michel Héroux	....	visual effects producer: Digital Dimension
Michel Héroux	....	visual effects supervisor: Digital Dimension
Andrew Honacker	....	visual effects consultant
Christian Irles	....	digital artist: Klon Films
Phil Jones	....	visual effects supervisor: Technicolor
Tobin Jones	....	senior technical director
Ara Khanikian	....	Inferno artist: Buzz Image Group
Danny S. Kim	....	creative director
Louis Kim	....	digital compositor: Intelligent Creatures Inc.
Lev Kolobov	....	digital effects designer and lead compositor: Intelligent Creatures Inc.
Jason Kolodziejczak	....	2D technical director: Intelligent Creatures Inc.
Geneviève Labelle	....	paint artist: Mokko Studio
Alain Lachance	....	compositing supervisor: Mokko Studio
Bruno-Olivier Laflamme	....	rotoscope artist
Wendy Lanning	....	executive visual effects producer: Intelligent Creatures Inc.
Pierre-Simon Lebrun-Chaput	....	CG lead artist: Buzz Image Group
Danny Lee	....	digital compositor: Intelligent Creatures Inc.
Ethan Lee	....	3D technical director: Intelligent Creatures Inc.
Sam Lee	....	digital compositor: Intelligent Creatures Inc.
Tracy Lefler	....	visual effects project manager: Technicolor
Margarida Leong	....	3D artist: Intelligent Creatures Inc.
Cynthia Lester	....	visual effects production assistant
Danny Levesque	....	digital effects artist: MOKKO Studio
Laurence Lok	....	digital effects designer and lead compositor: Intelligent Creatures Inc.
Jason Maher	....	3D artist: Intelligent Creatures Inc.
Chris Wolfgang Mauch	....	3D pre-visualization
Jim Maxwell	....	digital matte artist: Intelligent Creatures Inc.
Douglas Melville	....	visual effects project manager: Intelligent Creatures Inc. (as Doug Melville)
Francois Metivier	....	senior Inferno artist: Buzz Image Group
Rob Meyers	....	visual effects
Frederic Milot	....	Flame artist: Buzz Image Group
Roger Mocenigo	....	senior digital compositor: Amalgamated Pixels
Lon Molnar	....	visual effects creative advisor: Intelligent Creatures Inc.
Jerome Morin	....	visual effects executive producer: Digital Dimension
Louis Morin	....	visual effects supervisor: Buzz
Jean-Francois Morissette	....	matchmover
Michael Morreale	....	executive producer: Amalgamated Pixels (as Michael J. Morreale)
Jordan Nieuwland	....	matte painter: Technicolor
Peter Oberdorfer	....	visual effects supervisor
Jeremy Oddo	....	senior animator: Amalgamated Pixels
Sean O'Hara	....	compositor: Technicolor
Phillip Palousek	....	visual effects coordinator: Amalgamated Pixels
Scott Parker	....	systems administrator: Intelligent Creatures Inc.
Chris Parks	....	digital supervisor: Image Quest 3-D
Peter Parks	....	optical effects
Eric Person	....	digital compositor
Yvan Pinard	....	digital artist
Perri Pivovar	....	visual effects assistant editor
Sneha Prabhakaran	....	digital compositor: Intelligent Creatures Inc.
Thomas Proctor	....	digital compositor
Francis Puthanangadi	....	digital compositor: LOOK! Effects
Mathieu Raynault	....	CGI art director: Mokko Studio
Mathieu Raynault	....	digital matte painter: Mokko Studio
Persis Reynolds	....	senior visual effects producer: Technicolor
Kim Richardson	....	3D animator: Digital Dimension
Charles Richer	....	compositing artist: Mokko Studio
Scott Riopelle	....	digital compositor: Intelligent Creatures Inc.
Jean-Pierre Riverin	....	digital artist: Mokko Studio
Darcy Roake	....	visual effects production assistant
Tyler Robb	....	production assistant: Intelligent Creatures Inc.
Matthew Rouleau	....	3D artist: Buzz Image Group
Marc A. Rousseau	....	visual effects producer: Mokko Studio
Joe Russell	....	visual effects actor
Ruben Salazar	....	digital compositor
Joe Sambora	....	production assistant: Giant Killer Robots
Gabriel Sanchez	....	flame artist: LOOK! Effects
David Sanger	....	producer: New Deal Studios
Dan Schrecker	....	visual effects designer
Vicki Silva	....	digital compositor: Intelligent Creatures Inc.
Clancy Silver	....	digital compositor: Intelligent Creatures Inc.
Danita Slaughter	....	digital opticals editor
Tefft Smith	....	digital effects artist
Jason Snea	....	lead compositor: TCS Toronto
Martha Soehendra	....	digital compositor: Amalgamated Pixels
Mark G. Soper	....	visual effects producer
Philippe Sylvain	....	lead animation: Buzz Image Group
Clint Thorne	....	modeler: Giant Killer Robots
Duy Tran	....	rotoscope artist
Wayne Traudt	....	senior 3D artist: Intelligent Creatures Inc.
Mathieu Tremblay	....	visual effects coordinator: Mokko Studio
Robin Tremblay	....	digital artist
Mark Tureski	....	visual effects scanning & recording
Nowell Valeri	....	lead matchmove artist: Giant Killer Robots
Jeff Varga	....	digital artist
Jonathan Veltman	....	pre-visualization animator
Andrew Weisblum	....	visual effects editor
Jennifer Yu	....	digital artist
Enrico Altmann	....	model maker (uncredited)
Steven J. Scott	....	digital intermediate colorist: EFilm (uncredited)

Stunts
Alain Bérard	....	utility stunts
Alexandre Cadieux	....	stunt rigger (as Alex Cadieux)
Jason Cavalier	....	fight coordinator
Stéphane Dargis	....	utility stunts
Marc Désourdy	....	stunt coordinator
Ben Gauthier	....	utility stunts (as Benoît Gauthier)
François Gauthier	....	utility stunts (as Frank Gauthier)
Jere Gillis	....	utility stunts
Normand Gobeille	....	stunt rigger
Patrick Kerton	....	utility stunts
Héléna Laliberté	....	utility stunts (as Hélèna Laliberté)
André Laperrière	....	utility stunts
Karine Lemieux	....	stunt actor
Marc Moisan	....	utility stunts
Philippe Roberge	....	stunt rigger
Javier Segura	....	utility stunts
John Walsh	....	utility stunts
Dwayne Wiley	....	utility stunts (as Dwayne P. Wiley)
Martin Williams	....	head stunt rigger

Camera and Electrical Department
François Allard	....	rigging electrician
Eric Aubin	....	second assistant camera: "b" camera (as éric Aubin)
Pierre Beaulieu	....	electric department coordinator
André Bélaieff	....	generator operator
Eric Béliveau	....	rigging electrician (as Eric Beliveau)
Alain Bisson Doyal	....	grip
Richard Boucher	....	rigging grip
Roch Boucher	....	second assistant camera: "a" camera
Michael Boulonne	....	rigging electrician
Marcel Breton	....	grip
Stéphane Byl	....	electrician
Stéphane Caron	....	first assistant camera: motion control
Pierre Charpentier	....	dolly grip
André Chouinard	....	daily grip
Daniel Chrétien Jr.	....	additional rigging electrician
Guillaume Claveau	....	rigging grip
Joost Clerinx	....	grip
Francis Comeau	....	rigging grip
Laurent Communaux	....	electric department coordinator
Magela Crosignani	....	preview technician
Alexandre Curzi	....	rigging grip
François Daignault	....	camera operator
Benoit Daoust	....	rigging grip
Jean-François Dasylva-LaRue	....	electrician (as Jean-François Da Sylva-La Rue)
Audrey David