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Moon

2009 R 1h 37m IMDb RATING 7.8 / 10 387K YOUR RATING Rate POPULARITY 1,593 74 Play trailer 2 : 09 13 Videos 99+ Photos Psychological Drama Space Sci-Fi Drama Mystery Sci-Fi

Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels Read all Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems. Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems.

Director Duncan Jones Writers Duncan Jones Nathan Parker Stars Sam Rockwell Kevin Spacey Dominique McElligott See production info at IMDbPro IMDb RATING 7.8 / 10 387K YOUR RATING Rate POPULARITY 1,593 74 Director Duncan Jones Writers Duncan Jones Nathan Parker Stars Sam Rockwell Kevin Spacey Dominique McElligott 733 User reviews 449 Critic reviews 67 Metascore See production info at IMDbPro Won 1 BAFTA Award 28 wins & 37 nominations total

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Edit Sam Rockwell Sam Bell Kevin Spacey GERTY (voice) Dominique McElligott Tess Bell Rosie Shaw Little Eve Adrienne Shaw Nanny Kaya Scodelario Eve Benedict Wong Thompson Matt Berry Overmeyers Malcolm Stewart Technician Robin Chalk Sam Bell Clone Gavin Rothery Eliza Rescue Captain (uncredited) Gary Shaw Shaw, Rescue Team Member (uncredited) Mick Ward Ward, Rescue Team Member (uncredited) Director Duncan Jones Writers Duncan Jones Nathan Parker All cast & crew Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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8 AlsExGal

This is sci-fi that sticks to our own sensibilities

Lunar Industries is mining an alternate fuel, helium-3, when a massive oil crisis exists on Earth. The station is run by a single man, Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) with the help of Gertie, a Hal-like computer who drags itself around with a chain that has rollers on the ceilings of various compartments of the station.. He has a lilting voice (Kevin Spacey) just like Hal and is completely benevolent helping Sam in any way he can. I would prefer this thing over Hal any old day. Sam runs tests and makes reports, drives a mobile unit to the mines and packs canisters of H3 and sends them back to Earth. But he is nearly done with all this. Sam Bell is getting short, as they say, having only two weeks before going home after a three-year tour of duty. Then things begin to unravel.

This is sci-fi that sticks to our own sensibilities. It s futuristic in a most limited sense. There are no extravagant elements, time travel, parallel universes, or monsters that walk through walls. Sam Bell would probably have the same attitudes towards these things that we do. In other words, it takes place in real life. The interior of the station is clever but there is an admirable restraint. It s like Alien in this way.

There are other credits, but Sam Rockwell has 99% of the burden. A wonderful resume item, succeeding as he does not only carrying the film but holding it up like Hercules who has the world on his back. He imbues Sam Bell with an exuberant child-like demeanor that pulled me into the movie. He bobbles around the room to his favorite rock n roll. But he s not irresponsible or a ne er do well with his job. He is deadly serious, but wavering with the events of his life in these last two weeks. 8 anuragr

half way between solaris and space-odyssey

I was led to this movie, partly because of a sort of dissatisfaction from what we ve known as science fiction due to Star-Treks, Star wars, terminators and transformers. On my visit to the local independent movie theater, I was only expecting something like Apollo 13 and I would ve been satisfied with just that.

But the movie proved to be much more. It wasn t just the cinematography, few captivating shots of the moon surface, or the great acting performance. It was as if the movie took a while to ponder over philosophical questions that science and technology raise- something that every science fiction ought to do.

This work won t be unworthy of a comparison with Kubrick s- space odyssey – only that it is probably not as visually stimulating as the latter. It does make good use of classical music like Kubrick s. I found the movie to be a bit more accessible than Tarkovsky s Solaris in that it is much more fluid and entertaining (Solaris was 3 hr long – executed very slow albeit with a similar idea). Like Solaris, the protagonist s recollections of the life on earth eventually result in some mental instability, but the movie stays away from getting into long philosophical debates on human experience or our place on earth.

In general, do expect a lot more than space travel in this movie. To cite an example, the isolation of Sam made him more attached to memories of his life on earth. I don t recall many other movies that have expressed it so well that in isolation, nothing really means anything. Kudos to the director! Such existentialist reflections aside, there are many instances when the movie makes a statement about unethical corporate practices, evasive HR responses - almost to the extent Michael Clayton did. I think that makes it more worthwhile to watch. Still despite all that, it avoids taking any stances on controversies that bother all of us in modern times. It puts us through the fears of the unknown, catastrophes of distrust and what arises from distrust and isolation and all of that.

Still, somehow the movie isn t really as dark as the script might make it sound. There is isolation, mistrust, schemes, confusion, curiosities and despair, but the human experience probably transcends the realism of its existence – that was the idea I carried back from the movie theater. 10 Tasslehoff6

Fantastic

In short, this is one of the best sci-fi movies I have seen in a LONG time. Sam Rockwell plays it perfect, making the viewer feel his isolation and lonelieness. For a low budget film, the few effect shots work seamlessly. I m trying to remain spoiler free, so I won t bother to explain the plot. If you like older and more story/character driven sci-fi, such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, than chances are you will love this movie. If you aren t a huge fan of sci-fi, take a chance with this one. You may find it a very rewarding experience. I loved this movie, and I can t stop thinking about it. In Moon, you may begin to think that everything is a big cliché, but than with all of the seemingly cliché plot points, Moon changes them into something entirely original and unexpected. It is an excellent piece of art and I have a strong feeling not enough people will see and appreciate it like I did. 7 mike-1145

A worthwhile one-man show

Originally posted to titsandgore.com, April 2009:

Moon is an auspicious debut from Duncan Jones (née Zowie Bowie), a talented new director who happens to be the son of David Bowie (let me officially be the first person to predict that every review of this film in the mainstream press will have the tagline SPACE ODDITY! ). Sam Rockwell gives a truly remarkable performance as Sam Bell, a lunar miner who is nearing the end of his 3-year contract at a single-man mining outpost. His only companion is the station computer, Gertie, a straight-up HAL homage that tantalizingly suggests how a culture informed by decades of watching 2001 might choose to design a companion robot.

To say too much more about the plot would be to spoil its central conceit, and while I m sure many reviewers will talk openly about it, I want to preserve the surprise if at all possible at least until the film gets its theatrical release this coming June.

Suffice it to say that Jones admirably mixes together stock genre tropes, paying tribute to a number of classic science fiction features while retaining his own idiosyncratically dark vision. Familiar filmic concepts of the clean future and the dirty future are mixed together to create a unique atmosphere; the milieu is suitably claustrophobic, the cramped quarters of the mining station serving the film s conceptual purposes while masking the shoestring budget. In fact, it may be hard to spare a glance at the meticulously designed sets with your eyes glued to Rockwell for the duration of the picture. His performance is utterly mesmerizing, inhabiting the role so completely that it is impossible to imagine any other actor having the chutzpah to pull it off.

Which is not to say that Moon is without its problems; the pacing is hardly consistent and Jones reliance on Rockwell tends to undersell his direction. Parts of the film veer dangerously close to identical thematic elements in Steven Soderbergh s recent adaptation of Solaris, without being as emotionally potent. But what it lacks in originality is mostly compensated for by the sheer audacity of its central performance and the careful economy of its direction.

Moon may be dressed in familiar clothing, but it is a singular experience, a clever, darkly funny and genuinely moving journey into the nature of individuality. Jones is already at work on a second science fiction feature, and it is welcome indeed to see such a promising new talent continue to develop his voice by working in genre film-making! 10 KnatLouie

Excellent low-budget sci-fi drama with an amazing cast! ;)

Okay, here s the basic plot (without the twist-spoiler):

Place: The moon. Time: A future not long from now (2030-ish I think). Sam Bell, astronaut, is working on a lunar base of some sort. He is the only person on the entire base, only assisted by an all-knowing robot called GERTY (voiced by Kevin Spacey). He has been stationed on the base for almost 3 years, his contract nearing an end, and with his flight back to earth scheduled only 14 days away, he can t wait to get back home to see his wife and daughter again. However, suddenly one of the automated moon-vehicles (harvesting rock-samples or whatever) goes awry, and he goes outside of the base to investigate it but then something unexpected happens, and he has to change his perspective on everything.

End of basic plot summary.

Bell is played by the brilliant Sam Rockwell, whom you probably know from Charlie s Angels , The Green Mile , Confessions of a Dangerous Mind , Matchstick Men or the equally brilliant sci-fi movies Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and Galaxy Quest . This is probably his biggest part in a movie EVER, and I doubt if he will ever get a role as big as this again (not because he s not capable or worthy of it, but because it was a HUGE performance). If you re a fan of Rockwell (or perhaps of Kevin Spacey s voice), then you will not be disappointed, as they re both great in Moon .

For sci-fi lovers, this movie is really a blast. It takes some inspiration from such classics like 2001: A Space Odyssey , Outland , Silent Running , Alien , and others, but still manages to be unique and original, something which has become increasingly rare in the recent big-budget/massive special effects/quick fix-tradition of Hollywood nowadays. Moon achieved something great for a budget of approximately 5 million dollars, which is ridiculously low by regular movie-standards, where a feature film usually would cost ten times that amount.

As for the theme of the movie, the subjects of alienation, solitude, dehumanization and disbelief are risen (among others), which often leads to some of the best movies (in my opinion), as is the case here too.

All in all, this movie definitely ranks among my personal top-20 all-time sci-fi favorites, and I will presume it will be placed equally high on most sci-fi aficionado s lists. An excellent debut directorial by Duncan Jones, and clearly one of the 5 best sci-fi movies made in the last 10 years. Already looking forward to his next feature film, which allegedly is also going to be a sci-fi movie (although with a much bigger budget).

Final rating: 9.5/10 - a nearly flawless movie.

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Edit Trivia Originally, writer/director Duncan Jones wanted to cast Sam Rockwell in what eventually became Němý (2018) . However, Jones and Rockwell could never come to an agreement on which part he should play, and scheduling conflicts made an immediate collaboration on that film difficult. Because they got on so well and Jones wanted to work with Rockwell so much, he asked him what would interest him; when Rockwell named the blue collar characters from Outland (1981) , Silent Running (1972) and Vetřelec (1979) as the sort of role that he wanted to try, Jones wrote this film for him. Rockwell would later make an uncredited cameo in Mute as his Sam Bell character from Moon. Goofs Sam realizes that he has lost a tooth when feeling around in his lower jaw. However, the tooth that he pulls out of the toilet has three roots, meaning that it is a maxillary (upper) molar. Mandibular (lower) molars only have two roots, unless the person is of Asian or Native American descent.

He first felt his upper row of molars where the tooth came out of, then tried wiggling some from the bottom row to see if any more were loose. Quotes

GERTY : I hope life on Earth is everything you remember it to be.

Crazy credits The fictional company which owns and operates the lunar base is called Lunar Industries Ltd. As a nod to this, the production company used to make the movie is also called Lunar Industries Ltd (UK Companies House company number 06346944), whose company directors are Duncan Zowie Hayward Jones (the movie s director) and Stuart Douglas Fenegan (one of the movie s producers). Connections Edited into Race for Space (2010) Soundtracks Flute and Harp Concerto K299 2nd Mvt.
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (as Wolfgang A. Mozart)
Published by Boosey & Hawkes Production Music

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Edit Release date April 1, 2010 (Czech Republic) Countries of origin United Kingdom United States Official sites Official Facebook Sony Classics (United States) Languages English Spanish Also known as Měsíc Filming locations Dockweiler State Beach - 12001 Vista del Mar, Playa del Rey, Los Angeles, California, USA (B-Roll) Production companies Sony Pictures Classics Stage 6 Films Liberty Films Entertainment See more company credits at IMDbPro

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Edit Budget $5,000,000 (estimated) Gross US & Canada $5,010,163 Opening weekend US & Canada $136,046 Jun 14, 2009 Gross worldwide $9,760,107 See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

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Edit Runtime 1 hour 37 minutes Color Color Sound mix Dolby Digital Dolby Atmos Aspect ratio 2.35 : 1

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