Interstellar

"Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here."

2014 2h 49m EN

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★8.5TMDB · 41,404🍅73%Rotten Tomatoes●74Metacritic★8.7IMDB · 2,516,752

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The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.

“Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here.”

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Cast

Matthew McConaughey
Cooper
Anne Hathaway
Brand
Michael Caine
Professor Brand
Jessica Chastain
Murph
Casey Affleck
Tom
Wes Bentley
Doyle
Topher Grace
Getty
Mackenzie Foy
Murph (10 Yrs.)

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Christopher Nolan
Writers: Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan
Languages: English
Countries: United Kingdom, United States of America

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RUNTIME

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Clocks in at 169 minutes — on the longer side of feature-length cinema.

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MONEY

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$165M budget — tentpole studio territory.

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MONEY

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Made its money back 4.5× over at the box office.

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4 / 8

ERA

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Released 12 years ago.

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WORLD

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International production across 2 countries: United Kingdom, United States of America.

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CAST

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546+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Christopher Nolan, shot by Hoyte van Hoytema. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Hans Zimmer. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Christopher Nolan directs. Hoyte van Hoytema behind the camera. Hans Zimmer scores. Lee Smith cuts. A long sit — settle in. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United Kingdom, United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Clocks in at 169 minutes — on the longer side of feature-length cinema.
2$165M budget — tentpole studio territory.
3Made its money back 4.5× over at the box office.
4Released 12 years ago.
5International production across 2 countries: United Kingdom, United States of America.
6546+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
7Directed by Christopher Nolan, shot by Hoyte van Hoytema. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
8Original score by Hans Zimmer. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
9Editor Lee Smith shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
10Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway and Michael Caine carry the top of the cast.
11Marketing tagline: "Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here.".
12IMDB entry: tt0816692 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
1341,404 TMDB user ratings logged — serious cultural footprint.
14Classified under 29 themes, including "spacecraft", "race against time", "artificial intelligence (a.i.)", "nasa".
15Released under 48 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Hoyte van Hoytema
Original score: Hans Zimmer
Editing: Lee Smith
Production design: Nathan Crowley
Costume design: Mary Zophres
Makeup / hair: Patricia DeHaney
VFX supervisor: Andrew Lockley
Sound: Gregg Landaker
Stunt coordinator: George Cottle
Runtime: 169 min · 2h 49m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $165,000,000
Box office: $746,606,706
Return: 452% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Interstellar (2014)
Rotten Tomatoes: 73% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 74/100
IMDB rating: 8.7/10 · 2,516,752 votes
MPAA: PG-13

Awards

Won 1 Oscar. 45 wins & 148 nominations total

Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects

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Reno2014-11-12
★ 9/10
Well, one off from two of this year's most expected movies alongside 'The Battle of Five Armies'. Like all the Chris Nolan fans, I was equally excited to see the movie on the opening day opening show. But I slightly disappointed that it was not a digital 3D film. I agree, this science-fiction was more dramatized than usual space travel stories does with an adventure-thriller. Almost a 3 hour long stretch movie did not waste much time to take us to the core of the story. Get prepared for this extremely rare voyage into the space with a logical explanation for everything you see on the screen. Well done research for the most matured and intelligent writing. All the credit must go to Nolan brothers. A good sign from Jonathan Nolan, who can make big in the entertainment industry in a future like his brother. As we know many had liked 'Inception', to me that was a simple multi-layered action movie, that's all. But the same stuffs that used in this film makes sense. In fact, you have to have a little knowledge over how the universe works, so then it will be easy to catch the scene and situations while watching the movie. Totally like a documentary style concept, but with the additional stuffs like characters and its emotions add flavor that gives a movie look. An educational movie, though it also can work for those who wants just entertainment. Only the slow movie pace would test their patience. It all begins like Shyamalan's 'Signs' movie with a family living surrounded by corn field. Then switches to 'The Astronaut Farmer' and going through 'Gravity', finally meets the 'Inception'. It was just a reference to call the movie setting that brings constant change for every half an hour. Like the opening scene and the end scene had over a 100 years difference. As I earlier said it was the story of a family alongside the future of humankind and decoding universal mysteries through travelling in space and time. This movie would a reasonable for those who thought '2001: A Space Odyssey' is a boring piece, Cleverly written cinematic piece especially for science geeks. I don't know how perfect the movie to the actual present astrophysics, but will justify for the common people's capacity of understanding with an encourageable amount of commercial elements in it to entertain as well. The first three quarters of the movie was well made. It puts me in a unblinkable position like a story was narrated by Brian Cox in a television series. Like I said, lots of astrophysics involved in it, but strangely human emotions were also exhibited equally that I never expected one from Nolan film. It was not an ordinary sentiment, but was strong enough to make a man cry for happy and sad situations in the movie. I liked science and emotion coming together. In fact, it saved the movie, otherwise it would have been a science documentary straight from NASA production through Nolan direction. There are many surprise elements in the movie and of course there is a twist at the end. We can call it a series of twists like the layers. Compared to last quarter of the movie to the rest, it completely detaches which opens broadly to the different directions. And that happens so fast rushing towards the other end. Which give an impression of the movie 'Inception'. In a perfect way to say the first 75% was 'The Tree of Life' and the remains are 'Inception'. ‘‘This world's a treasure, but it's been telling us to leave for a while now.’’ All the actors were so good. Matthew McConaughey steals the show as he dominates the majority of the screen space in the story presentation. There's no ruling out the fine performance executions from Anne Hathaway and the young star from the Twilight movie, Mackenzie Foy. The remaining cast was having less scope which were like the guest appearances that was widened a little broader, but was perfectly fitted for the story. Especially Matt Damon's was the crucial one. Remember the movie 'Contact', a lovely movie, which was ruined by its fictional ending. Something like that happened in this film as well. The story was initiated with a realistic approach with actual scientific contents as per the present understanding about the universe. But the end was let me down with the layered contents that kind of impossible to agree with it. As a cinematic theme it worked, yeah, a good solution for this wonderfully written story. We know that the time can't run backwards, so that's the trouble. Anyway, this movie defines in a new way, I mean scientifically the existence of ghost. It was not a horror movie, but I liked supernatural force that merged with this science fiction theme. That explains and gives vast ideas to expand our physics beyond something and somewhere yet to reach. Hats off to the director, because he was not thinking of making money here. His idea was to implement what the humans are understood so far about the cosmos. And he very nicely transformed those into the silver screen with the blend of human emotions. In my opinion, this will replace '2001: A Space Odyssey' for sometime till another one make this way. I could have not asked a better space travel drama than this, especially when I heard Nolan doing a science-fiction I believed he gonna rock it. He was so true to the science and the human feelings in this film. If you had seen enough movies before like this one, you can recall your memories like the Tom Hanks parts from 'Cloud Atlas'. But still independently stands strong and falls in a never seen before category. ‘‘Maybe we've spent too long trying to figure all this out with theory.’’ The end scene leaves a hint of a possible sequel. I would be happy if that happen in a near future, but definitely that would be a completely different cinema as per how this one ended. I know his fans want that to happen and so am I. The visuals were not that great, but simply very good. To see those in digital 3D would have given us a different experience, sadly Nolan was not in favor of that technology. Hoping this movie would get as many as the Oscars nod. Especially not getting into the best motion picture shortlist would be a shame. Like I said I'm no one fan, I just love watching everyone's every movie. I would have went to see it again if it was converted into digital 3D, since I'm modern tech geek when it comes to the films. It will become a talk of the week, perhaps month all over the world, so don't leave behind when your friends talk about it. What I gonna say is it is a must see asap if you are a movie fanatic like me otherwise Nolan movies does not need anyone's recommendation because his movies usually sell itself like the hot samosa.
decovision2015-09-12
★ 9.5/10
People seem to think that if you enjoy a Christopher Nolan movie, you are a fanboy and the film couldn't really be that good. That is not true. He has never made a bad movie, Insomnia is probably his worst and it is still an excellent movie. Interstellar is up there in his top 3, with The Dark Knight being number 1 and Inception in number 2. I don't think he will ever make a better movie than The Dark Knight, it is without a doubt a masterpiece of cinema in my opinion. It can be enjoyed on so many levels. I remember seeing Interstellar in the movie theater and being on the edge of my seat the whole time. It was breathtaking but the end left me confused so i walked out disappointed. Since then i have watched it many times but it only took a second viewing to realize what a great ending it is and here is why. How many people discuss the end, was the wormhole open or closed for him to make it to Brand, what happens next, is there a sequel. I discuss this with people who hate the movie and the debate will still last a good 30 minutes if not more without getting heated. It is a wonderful story told through the eyes of a genius film maker who deserves more than he receives, an oscar would be nice start. I read hat his next movie is to be released in July 2017, I can't wait to find out everything about it like i have since he began. If you're unsure about Christopher Nolan, watch his career from the beginning starting with Doodlebug.
Andres Gomez2015-10-31
★ 7/10
Another grandiloquent movie from Christoper Nolan. The cast is good, and McConaughey performs a role made for himself. The photography is very nice but the movie commits all the same mistakes than previous Nolan's movies. I think mistakes but it may be that they are the points Nolan fans enjoy the most ... * The story makes you believe it is a realy deeply thought plot but, in the end, it has so basic mistakes and stupidities that make it nonsensical. * There is a general ambience of every moment being epic; deep, solemn and smart dialogues but, at some point our highly trained engineer and pilot behaves really stupidly. * To keep the mentioned constant feeling of being in an epic moment, Nolan uses a thumping and insistent soundtrack. As it is not a moment, but a 3h movie, it is really tiresome. All in all, the movie is OK but you can only think this is a great movie if you are a real Nolan fan.