It is the near future. Astronaut Sam Bell is living on the far side of the moon, completing a three-year contract with Lunar Industries to mine Earth's primary source of energy, Helium-3. It is a lonely job, made harder by a broken satellite that allows no live communications home. Thankfully, his time on the moon is nearly over, and Sam will be reunited with his wife, Tess, and their three-year-old daughter, Eve, in only a few short weeks. Suddenly, Sam's health starts to deteriorate. Painful headaches, hallucinations and a lack of focus lead to an almost fatal accident on a routine drive on the moon in a lunar rover. While recuperating back at the base (with no memory of how he got there), Sam meets a younger, angrier version of himself, who claims to be there to fulfill the same three-year contract Sam started all those years ago. Confined with what appears to be a clone of his earlier self, and with a "support crew" on its way to help put the base back into productive order, Sam is fighting the clock to discover what's going on and where he fits into company plans.
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Movie Details
Running Time:
97 min
MPAA rating:
R
(for language)
Release Date:
June 12, 2009
Director:
Duncan Jones
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‘Moon’’ might be a once-in-a-lifetime experience for fans of Sam Rockwell. Will there ever be more of him in one movie than there is here? This is partly a matter of time (he’s in the whole movie). But it’s also a matter of volume: There’s more than one of him. Rockwell in duplicate is the most interesting thing about “Moon,’’ which, sadly, is not a command. Generically, it’s a place; specifically, it’s where Sam Bell, the astronaut Rockwell plays, is two weeks away from the end of a three-year stint mining a new energy source for Earth. (Full review)