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Moon (2009) -- Astronaut Sam Bell (Rockwell) has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon.
Moon (2009) -- Moon Clip - "Just to check the exterior shell"
Moon (2009) -- Trailer for this psychological science fiction film, starring Sam Rockwell and Kevin Spacey
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Overview

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Director:
Duncan Jones
Writers:
Duncan Jones (original story)
Nathan Parker (screenplay)
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Release Date:
17 July 2009 (UK) more
Tagline:
The last place you'd ever expect to find yourself more
Plot:
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. full summary | full synopsis
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(284 articles)
Jason Statham is grabbing the 'Blitz'
 (From screeninglog. 13 July 2009, 12:04 AM, PDT)

Review: ‘Moon’
 (From The Flickcast. 10 July 2009, 1:30 PM, PDT)

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A worthwhile one-man show more

Cast

  (Credited cast)

Matt Berry ... Overmeyers

Robin Chalk ... Sam
Dominique McElligott ... Tess Bell

Sam Rockwell ... Sam Bell
Kaya Scodelario ... Eve Bell

Kevin Spacey ... GERTY (voice)
Malcolm Stewart ... The Technician
Benedict Wong ... Thompson
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for language.
Runtime:
97 min | USA:97 min (Sundance Film Festival)
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
UK:15 | USA:R | Ireland:15A | Canada:14A (Alberta/Manitoba/Ontario) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (British Columbia)

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Trivia:
Shot during a writer's strike, which had caused most other productions at Shepperton studios to shut down. Director Duncan Jones says he got a number of top-class effects people on the crew because of the lull. more
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Features "Bewitched" (1964) more

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A Note Regarding Spoilers
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14 out of 18 people found the following comment useful:-
A worthwhile one-man show, 12 June 2009
7/10
Author: mike-1145 from Minneapolis, MN

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!

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