Interstellar (2014)
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A group of astronauts travels through a wormhole in search of a new home for humanity as Earth faces a catastrophic blight.
The story
In the near future, humanity faces extinction due to dust storms and widespread crop blights. Cooper, a widowed former NASA test pilot, works as a farmer and raises his children, Murph and Tom, with his father-in-law Donald. Following a dust storm, Cooper and Murph discover that dust patterns in Murph's room result from a gravitational anomaly. Cooper recognizes the patterns as binary code specifying coordinates, which lead him and Murph to a secret NASA facility headed by Professor John Brand. Brand reveals a wormhole near Saturn leads to a system in another galaxy with potentially habitable planets. Cooper is enlisted to pilot the Endurance spacecraft through the wormhole to ensure humanity's survival.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
In a future where Earth is dying from blight, Cooper, a former pilot turned farmer, discovers a gravitational anomaly in his daughter's room. The anomaly provides coordinates to a secret NASA facility where Professor Brand reveals a wormhole near Saturn leading to habitable planets in another galaxy. Cooper joins a mission aboard the Endurance to find a new home for humanity. During the journey, the crew explores planets where time is dilated; on one, a tidal wave kills a crew member, and on another, Cooper and Brand experience a 23-year jump in time on Earth. Cooper eventually finds himself in a tesseract—a multidimensional space constructed by future humans—where he communicates with his daughter in the past to transmit vital data. This allows her to solve a gravity equation. After the tesseract collapses, Cooper reunites with an elderly Murph, who tells him to find Brand. Cooper then travels to join Brand and the others who are establishing a colony on a habitable planet.
- First release year
- 2014
- Runtime (minutes)
- 169
- Production countries
- United States; United Kingdom
- Original languages
- English
- Directors
- Christopher Nolan
- Writers
- Jonathan Nolan · writer; Christopher Nolan · writer
- Cast and characters
- Matthew McConaughey · Joseph "Coop" Cooper; Anne Hathaway · Dr. Amelia Brand; Jessica Chastain · Murphy "Murph" Cooper; Bill Irwin · TARS (voice and puppetry) and CASE (puppetry); Ellen Burstyn · elderly Murph; Michael Caine · Professor John Brand; Casey Affleck · Tom Cooper; Timothée Chalamet · 15-year-old Tom
- Genres
- science fiction; drama
- Themes
- human survival; time dilation; father-daughter relationship; sacrifice; science and faith
- Tone and mood
- epic; thought-provoking; visually resplendent; hopeful; heartbreaking
- Premise and plot tags
- space exploration; time travel; multiverse; survival; black holes
- Source material / true-story basis
- A treatment by producer Lynda Obst and theoretical physicist Kip Thorne.
- Reception
- The film received generally positive reviews from critics and was considered a commercial success.
- Reported review scores
- Rotten Tomatoes · score: 73% · scale: percentage · review count: 373; Metacritic · score: 74 · scale: 100 · review count: 46
- Production trivia
- The film was originally set to be directed by Steven Spielberg.; It was filmed under the pseudonym 'Flora's Letter' to maintain secrecy.
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