Interstellar (2014)

A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in an attempt to find a potentially habitable planet that will sustain humanity.

Director:

Christopher Nolan

Writers:

Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan

Stars:

Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain

Top 250 #13 | 1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Ellen Burstyn	...	Murph (older)
Matthew McConaughey	...	Cooper
Mackenzie Foy	...	Murph (10 Yrs.)
John Lithgow	...	Donald
Timothée Chalamet	...	Tom (15 Yrs.)
David Oyelowo	...	School Principal
Collette Wolfe	...	Ms. Hanley
Francis X. McCarthy	...	Boots (as Francis Xavier McCarthy)
Bill Irwin	...	TARS (voice)
Anne Hathaway	...	Brand
Andrew Borba	...	Smith
Wes Bentley	...	Doyle
William Devane	...	Williams
Michael Caine	...	Professor Brand
David Gyasi	...	Romilly

Storyline

In the near future, Earth has been devastated by drought and famine, causing a scarcity in food and extreme changes in climate. When humanity is facing extinction, a mysterious rip in the space-time continuum is discovered, giving mankind the opportunity to widen its lifespan. A group of explorers must travel beyond our solar system in search of a planet that can sustain life. The crew of the Endurance are required to think bigger and go further than any human in history as they embark on an interstellar voyage into the unknown. Coop, the pilot of the Endurance, must decide between seeing his children again and the future of the human race.

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Plot Keywords:

wormhole | father daughter relationship | space travel | black hole | famine | 

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Taglines:

Mankind's next step will be our greatest.

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Genres:

Adventure | Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

U

Details

Official Sites:

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Country:

USA UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

5 November 2014 (France)

Also Known As:

Interstellar

Filming Locations:

Okotoks, Alberta, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

$165,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$47,510,360 (USA) (7 November 2014)

Gross:

$148,929,713 (USA) (2 December 2014)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Legendary Pictures, Lynda Obst Productions, Paramount Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

169 min

Sound Mix:

Datasat Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Christopher Nolan cast Matthew McConaughey after seeing his performance in Mud - Sur les rives du Mississippi (2012). It was an "ideal moment" for Nolan when they landed a Texas native, McConaughey, for the lead role. "I'm thrilled for him right now. I didn't know how much potential he had until I saw Mud - Sur les rives du Mississippi (2012), not just as a leading man but in sheer acting talent." He remarked that in McConaughey, he "needed an everyday man who can experience these extraordinary events."

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Goofs

When Murph is reading the Morse Code from the watch, she starts writing it down. Anyone who knows Morse Code, knows that it is quicker to write the letters and numbers than writing the dots and dashes.

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Quotes

Dr. Brand: We must confront the reality that nothing in our solar system can help us.
Cooper: Now you need to tell me what your plan is to save the world.
Dr. Brand: We're not meant to save the world. We're meant to leave it, and this is the mission you were trained for.
Cooper: I've got kids, professor.
Dr. Brand: Then get out there and save them. We must reach far beyond our own lifespans. We must think not as individuals but as a species. We must confront the reality of interstellar travel.

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Crazy Credits

There are no opening credits, except for the title.

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Connections

References Event Horizon - Le vaisseau de l'au-delà (1997)

User Reviews

An Emotional, Beautiful Journey into the Unknown

(This is both a review of the film, and an assertion of Christopher Nolan's filmmaking style)

There have been many reviewers and critics alike that have high praise for the film (the visual effects, the acting, the music), but say how it's not Christopher Nolan's best directed film. This is where i personally would have to disagree. Before i get into it, though, i'll talk about Interstellar a bit.

Interstellar is truly a sci-fi epic like no other. To compare said film to '2001: A Space Odyssey' isn't just a disservice, but unnecessary. The films are almost nothing alike, simply sharing small plot elements. Also, Stanley Kubrick's vision of Arthur C. Clarke's sci-fi epic wasn't to ponder the philosophical questions that accompanied the story, but to make art, and art is was, and is. With Interstellar, Mr. Nolan set out to make his most personal and emotional film to date about love and time (time being a recurring theme throughout all of Nolan's films). But it's so much more than that too. There are no words to express the epic journey Nolan takes us on in the film, but needless to say, it's tear-jerking and emotional throughout. The acting is top-notch, especially McConaughey, who gives (I would say) his most emotional performance yet. But the actor who stole the show in a few scenes (one in particular, when they're on an alien planet) was David Gyasi as Romilly, one of the astronauts aboard the Endurance, their spacecraft. The musical score from Hans Zimmer is, without a doubt, his best and most influential work to date, helping drive the film's bold and breath-taking vision (the church organ helped significantly). The visual effects are easily the best to date as well, and of the year. To see a black hole created through visual effects in such a way, with pages theoretical equations provided by Kip Thorne (theoretical physicist, of whom's work inspired the film's genesis); what you see in the film is the most realistic depiction of a black hole, and even offered new insight to accretion discs surrounding the anomalies. But even everything else, from the alien planets to the Endurance, the visuals always look real. Then, there's the writing. I would definitely have to say this has some of the best dialogue i've ever heard in a sci-fi movie, and the script continually pours or oozes emotion, keeping the audience tethered to the film.

Now, about Mr. Nolan. Don't just look at Nolan, but look at his films. Some say Inception would be his masterpiece, while others would say it's The Dark Knight, or Memento. But honestly, every single film Christopher Nolan has directed is a masterpiece not of its genre, but of Nolan. Following is his quiet masterpiece, not the film that put Mr. Nolan on the map as a phenomenal director, but one people visited or revisited after becoming accustomed to Nolan, after seeing Memento, what could be called his breakout masterpiece. Then, right after, he directed the remake of the Norwegian thriller, Insomnia. This, too, could be considered a masterpiece, even if a remake. Then, we were given his take on the Batman universe, starting with Batman Begins, the origin masterpiece. Then, there's The Prestige, adapted from the novel of the same name, which can be called his dark masterpiece. The Dark Knight, his bold masterpiece; Inception, his complex masterpiece, and The Dark Knight Rises, his flawed masterpiece. Now, we have Interstellar, his emotional or personal masterpiece.

This is just my looking at Nolan and his films, but whatever your thoughts are, you can't deny Interstellar is one hell of a journey. He certainly is one of the best filmmakers of our time, and of all time. I can't wait to see what he does next, but i'm not sure it will be as emotionally powerful as Interstellar.