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Release Date:
22 November 2006 (USA) moreTagline:
What If You Could Live Forever? morePlot:
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. full summary | full synopsisAwards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 6 wins & 14 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(128 articles)
Exclusive: Interview with Prototype video game composers Cris Velasco and Sascha Dikiciyan (From Fangoria. 18 July 2009, 11:54 PM, PDT)
Darren Aronofsky close to helming "Black Swan"
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The Fountain: Heart-Breakingly Beautiful moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) more
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Rated PG-13 for some intense sequences of violent action, some sensuality and language. (edited for re-rating; originally R)Parents Guide:
View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
96 minCountry:
USAColor:
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1.85 : 1 moreCertification:
UK:15 (original rating) | Ireland:15A | Australia:M | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | UK:12A (edited for re-rating) | USA:R (original rating) | Singapore:PG | France:U | Germany:12 | Hong Kong:IIA | Argentina:13 | Netherlands:16 | Sweden:11 | Finland:K-13 | Portugal:M/12 | South Korea:15 | Peru:14 | USA:PG-13 (edited for re-rating) (certificate #41776) | Brazil:14 | New Zealand:MFun Stuff
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The scene where Dr. Creo (Hugh Jackman) walks into traffic after leaving the hospital mirrors that of Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru (1952). In both scenes, both lead characters have left a hospital in shock. There is no audio until both characters step into traffic and a disgruntled driver blows their horn. moreGoofs:
Errors in geography: The map used by the conquistadors to find the Tree of Life is erroneous. The priest says the three points which form an equilateral triangle on the map are Chichen Itza, Yaxchilan, and Tikal. However in reality, the three Mayan sites form an obtuse triangle, with Chichen Itza been the northern-most and the eastern-most point. moreQuotes:
Tom Creo: What are you doing here?Izzi: Take a walk with me.
Tom Creo: I have too much work.
Izzi: It's the first snow, we always...
Tom Creo: [interrupting] They're waiting on me.
Izzi: Come on Tommy...
Tom Creo: Please, Izzi!
[softens]
Tom Creo: I'm sorry. I am.
[Izzi walks out]
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I do not know how to sum this movie up in this review, and to try to would be an injustice to Darren Aronofsky's genius. So I will just state the facts. I saw this film at the Chicago International Film Festival. I was blown away. This movie is so original and so breath taking. There is only one word that I can use to describe it: BEAUTIFUL. Darren Aronofsky is a genius and the greatest film-maker of our time. He is a visionary, and one of the greatest script writers. Hugh Jackman's performance ranks among the greatest male screen performances in cinema history. Rachel Weisv is amazing, as is Ellen Burnstyn, and Sean Patrick Thomas. Clint Mansell teams up with The Kronos Quartet and the Scottish rock band Mogwai to bring us some of the most beautiful and epic music I have ever heard. Matthew Libatique's cinematography is breath taking. It is so simple, yet so effective and so amazing. Jay Robinowitz deserves special mention here because the movie is so well put together it flows, and as an editor myself, I can understand how hard that must have been. The three time lines weave in and out of each other flawlessly. This movie is so good I need to see it again in order to catch all of it, but this taste will be enough to sustain me for another month, when I will surely see it four or five times. This movie is about themes bigger than you can possibly imagine, and it will take some thinking, and it is genius. In my opinion, the best movie I have ever seen.