Moon

(Moon)

Synopsis

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. Taped messages are all Sam can send and receive. 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. Finally, he will leave the isolation of “Sarang,” the moon base that has been his home for so long, and he will finally have someone to talk to beyond “Gerty,” the base’s well-intentioned, but rather uncomplicated computer.

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.

A movie directed by Duncan Jones

2009 - 97 minutes - Color - Dolby Digital - 2.35


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Main Cast

  • Sam Bell
  • GERTY (voice)
  • Tess Bell
  • Little Eve
  • Nanny
  • Eve
  • Thompson
  • Overmeyers
  • Technician
  • Sam Bell Clone

Production

Distributors

Box-office

Budget
$5 000 000

Worldwide Box-office
$6 934 000

Also Known As

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Release dates

  • July 17, 2009
  • June 12, 2009
  • July 10, 2009
  • October 08, 2009
  • June 20, 2009 (Edinburgh International Film Festival)
  • July 17, 2009
  • January 23, 2009 (Sundance Film Festival)
  • March 27, 2009 (Philadelphia International Film Festival)
  • March 29, 2009 (Cleveland International Film Festival)
  • April 30, 2009 (Tribeca Film Festival)
  • May 26, 2009 (Seattle International Film Festival)
  • June 12, 2009
  • July 10, 2009