Interstellar (2014)

A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in space in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival.

Director:

Christopher Nolan

Writers:

Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan

Stars:

Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain

Top Rated Movies #29 | Won 1 Oscar. Another 43 wins & 148 nominations.

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

Earth's future has been riddled by disasters, famines, and droughts. There is only one way to ensure mankind's survival: Interstellar travel. A newly discovered wormhole in the far reaches of our solar system allows a team of astronauts to go where no man has gone before, a planet that may have the right environment to sustain human life.

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Plot Keywords:

astronaut | saving the world | relativity | gravity | nasa | 

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Taglines:

Mankind's next step will be our greatest.

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Genres:

Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

M

Did You Know?

Trivia

In the scene where Cooper has to land their ship on Miller's water planet, the camera focuses on him gripping the seat of his chair. This is a reference to a common aviation saying, "Fly by the seat of your pants." Before modern instruments, pilots relied on instinct and their senses to fly, such as sight, using landmarks to gauge altitude or distance. Pilots also used feeling from the vibrations in their seat from air hitting the plane to determine windspeed and direction. Cooper verifies this when he said he needs to "feel the air" in order to land properly instead of relying on technology.

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Goofs

Cooper and Donald sit on their porch before Cooper's departure, drinking what appears to be beer, despite the fact that all crops except for corn (including ostensibly hops and barley, ingredients in beer) are not able to be grown.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Murph: Well, my dad was a farmer. Um, like everybody else back then. Of course, he didn't start that way.

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Crazy Credits

"This motion picture was shot and finished on film"

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Alternate Versions

The 70mm IMAX version is two minutes shorter than the regular 70mm, Digital IMAX, 35mm, and digital projection versions. This is because the end credits are played in an abbreviated slide-show form (rather than scrolling from bottom to top), due to the size capacity of the IMAX platters, which can hold a maximum of 167 minutes of film.

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Connections

Referenced in StarTalk: Astronaut Scott Kelly (2018)

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Soundtracks

Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night
(uncredited)
Written by Dylan Thomas

User Reviews

A Visually Monumental And Thoughtful Sci-Fi Epic

I was extremely lucky to get the chance to see this film upon its first day release, before entering the cinema, my expectations were already high, after all, this was a film from the cinematic genius who brought us the likes of 'Inception' and 'The Dark Knight', to summarise the following review in a single sentence: I left the cinema in extreme awe from the visual masterpiece I had just viewed. A film that explores the psychological and emotional state of a man whose life revolves around his family, 'Interstellar' is a thrilling and thought-provoking film that boasts an intellectual story masterfully written by the Nolan brothers. Whilst there seems to have been influence from films like '2001: A Space Odyssey' and 'Apollo 13', 'Interstellar' is unique in its own way. Whilst the subject may be hard to comprehend at times, it can't be denied how visually monumental and thoughtful Christopher Nolan's epic science fiction masterpiece is, and can easily be named the best film of this year and possibly one of the greatest science fiction films to have ever graced the screen. A sheer brilliant feat of cinema.

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

USA UK Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

6 November 2014 (New Zealand)

Also Known As:

Interstellar

Filming Locations:

Okotoks, Alberta, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

$165,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$47,510,360, 9 November 2014

Gross USA:

$188,020,017

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$701,729,127

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., Legendary Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

169 min

Sound Mix:

Datasat Dolby Digital IMAX 6-Track Dolby Surround 7.1 Sonics-DDP (IMAX version)

Color:

Color (FotoKem)

Aspect Ratio:

2.39 : 1