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Inception

  • 20102010
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 2h 28m
IMDb RATING
8.8/10
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Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Berenger, Michael Caine, Lukas Haas, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tom Hardy, Elliot Page, Ken Watanabe, and Dileep Rao in Inception (2010)
A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O.
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A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O., but his tragic past may doom the pro... Read allA thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O., but his tragic past may doom the project and his team to disaster.A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O., but his tragic past may doom the project and his team to disaster.
IMDb RATING
8.8/10
2.3M
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130
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    • Director
      • Christopher Nolan
    • Writer
      • Christopher Nolan
    • Stars
      • Leonardo DiCaprio
      • Joseph Gordon-Levitt
      • Elliot Page
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Christopher Nolan
    • Writer
      • Christopher Nolan
    • Stars
      • Leonardo DiCaprio
      • Joseph Gordon-Levitt
      • Elliot Page
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    • 4.6KUser reviews
    • 483Critic reviews
    • 74Metascore
    Top rated movie #13
    • Won 4 Oscars
      • 157 wins & 220 nominations total

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    Leonardo DiCaprio and Ken Watanabe in Inception (2010)
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    Leonardo DiCaprio, Christopher Nolan, and Elliot Page in Inception (2010)
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    Leonardo DiCaprio in Inception (2010)
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    Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Tom Hardy in Inception (2010)
    Leonardo DiCaprio and Christopher Nolan in Inception (2010)
    Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Ken Watanabe in Inception (2010)

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    Leonardo DiCaprio
    Leonardo DiCaprio
    • Cobb
    Joseph Gordon-Levitt
    Joseph Gordon-Levitt
    • Arthur
    Elliot Page
    Elliot Page
    • Ariadne
    • (as Ellen Page)
    Ken Watanabe
    Ken Watanabe
    • Saito
    Tom Hardy
    Tom Hardy
    • Eames
    Dileep Rao
    Dileep Rao
    • Yusuf
    Cillian Murphy
    Cillian Murphy
    • Robert Fischer
    Tom Berenger
    Tom Berenger
    • Browning
    Marion Cotillard
    Marion Cotillard
    • Mal
    Pete Postlethwaite
    Pete Postlethwaite
    • Maurice Fischer
    Michael Caine
    Michael Caine
    • Miles
    Lukas Haas
    Lukas Haas
    • Nash
    Tai-Li Lee
    • Tadashi
    Claire Geare
    Claire Geare
    • Phillipa (3 Years Old)
    Magnus Nolan
    Magnus Nolan
    • James (20 Months Old)
    Taylor Geare
    Taylor Geare
    • Phillipa (5 Years Old)
    Johnathan Geare
    • James (3 Years Old)
    Tohoru Masamune
    Tohoru Masamune
    • Japanese Security Guard
    • Director
      • Christopher Nolan
    • Writer
      • Christopher Nolan
    • All cast & crew
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      In an effort to combat confusion, television broadcasts in Japan include text in the upper-left corner of the screen to remind viewers in which level of the dream a specific scene takes place.
    • Goofs
      When Ariadne and Cobb are at the café, a man in a yellow jacket passes behind Cobb. The camera switches back and forth between Cobb and Ariadne several times. When it switches back to Cobb, the man in the yellow jacket passes once again. The person in the jacket is a projection and based on what the movie explains, projections behave a lot like extras. This means the same projection may reappear like that.
    • Quotes

      Cobb: What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea. Resilient... highly contagious. Once an idea has taken hold of the brain it's almost impossible to eradicate. An idea that is fully formed - fully understood - that sticks; right in there somewhere.

    • Crazy credits
      At the end of the credits Édith Piaf's "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien" plays at normal speed, then slows down to the speed it was at the beginning of the film during Hans Zimmer's score and throughout the movie. Then we see the title stop in the center of the screen as the song ends.
    • Connections
      Edited into The Paul Behragam Talk Show: "Balto" R&T Part 5 (2015)
    • Soundtracks
      Non, je ne Regrette rien
      Music by Charles Dumont

      Lyrics by Michel Vaucaire

      Performed by Édith Piaf

      Courtesy of EMI Music France

      Under license from EMI Film & Television Music

    User reviews4.6K

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    Top review
    9/10
    A Potpourri of Vestiges Review: Buñuel meets Kubrick in Nolan's most ambitious venture, till date
    Surrealism can appear to be ineffably bizarre, or inquisitively titillating, depending purely on the viewer's intellect. Though the realm of surrealism is highly nebulous and complex, but even a slight attempt at improvisation can sometimes go awry and open a Pandora's Box, making the task highly improbable and nigh impossible. This facet of reality may pose a handicap to the most gifted of the directors, but not to the genius of Christopher Nolan, who not only dabbles with the concept of surrealism, but also ingeniously blends it with the elements of Science Fiction in his latest wonder named Inception. Nolan created a niche for himself a decade back by unleashing a monster of a movie called Memento. He further substantiated his status by conjuring movies like Insomnia, The Prestige, Batman Begins, and The Dark Knight. His unremitting desire for innovation and uncanny craving to foray into the unexplored realms of imagination deservedly earned him an auteur tag, which gave him the carte blanche that a story-teller like Nolan desperately needs. It's highly apparent that Nolan takes every possible advantage of this liberty while filming Inception. Inception is not only dreamlike, but is a dream in itself and is superior to any other thing conceived on the silver screen. With its entwined layers, the movie for the most part serves as an unfathomable riddle and makes multiple viewing extremely essential. It incredibly does extremely well on both the humanistic as well as the technical fronts. In fact, the balance between human emotions and the elements of Science Fiction is so adequate that it's impossible to separate them.

    The movie is about a futuristic world where the human mind can be intercepted through dream invasion. Cobb is an expert in the art of extracting information (stealing valuable secrets) from deep within the subconscious in the dream state. His proficiency in extraction is marred by a turmoil that begins with his wife's untimely death. He is forced to live the life of a fugitive away from his children. His only chance for redemption lies with a Japanese tycoon named Saitu, who wants him to do an inception (planting information into someone's mind). In order to accomplish this unprecedented task, Cobb and his team must overcome a labyrinth of unforeseeable challenges, where even a slight miss could trap them in a perpetual limbo. Any further revelation would be remissness on my part as the plot is filled with such intricacies that even expatiation would be incapable of justifying its profundity.

    Leonardo Dicaprio gives a solid performance in the lead role, following his memorable performance in Shutter Island. He has brilliantly depicted the complexities and limitations of Cobb's enigmatic character highlighting his pain and mental trauma. Marion Cotillard is ravishingly scintillating as Cobb's whimsical wife, Mal. The rest of the cast has given a thorough performance with special mention of Ken Watanabe, Ellen Page and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

    Inception is incredibly brilliant as a movie and is a breakthrough in contemporary cinema. Nolan's creativity and his unparalleled execution definitely make it an object of great cachet, but whether it would become Buñuel's 'Un chien andalou' or Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' and serve as a prototype for the movies to come is for the time to decide. Irrespectively, Inception is sine qua non not only for an aficionado, but also for the average viewer, who is willing to delve deep enough to savour the delight.

    PS: One has to imagine it to believe it. 9/10

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    FAQ62

    • Is the Michael Caine character Cobb or Mal's father?
    • Why only Cobb brought his own projections (Mal, train, kids) in dreams? Why didn't the others bring own problems/projections in the dreams?
    • How does Cobb know the combination of Saito's safe from the beginning of the movie?

    Details

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    • Release date
      • July 16, 2010 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • United Kingdom
    • Official sites
      • Official Facebook
      • Warner Bros. (Japan)
    • Languages
      • English
      • Japanese
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Inception: The IMAX Experience
    • Filming locations
      • Fortress Mountain, Kananaskis Country, Alberta, Canada
    • Production companies
      • Warner Bros.
      • Legendary Entertainment
      • Syncopy
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $160,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $292,587,330
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $62,785,337
      • Jul 18, 2010
    • Gross worldwide
      • $836,848,102
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 28 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
      • DTS
      • SDDS
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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