Moon is a science fiction thriller movie. It is the first feature film directed by British film director Duncan Jones, best known as the son of popular music icon David Bowie. The film is about a solitary lunar employee who finds that he may not be able to go home to Earth so easily. The actor Sam Rockwell stars as the lunar employee and Kevin Spacey voices his robot companion.
 

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Moon Movie Cast: Starring: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElligott, Rosie Shaw, Kaya Scodelario, Benedict Wong Directed by: Duncan Jones Produced by: Stuart Fenegan and Trudie Styler Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller Running Time:  97 minutes Release Date: June 12, 2009 in USA cinemas MPAA Rating: ? Original Music: Filming Locations: Screen Writer: Duncan Jones, Nathan Parker Studio: Sony Pictures Classics

Plot

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.

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Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is an employee contracted by the company Lunar to mine on the moon the natural gas Helium 3, which could reverse Earth's energy crisis. Sam is stationed at the lunar base Selene with only a robot named Gertie (voiced by Kevin Spacey), but two weeks before completing his three year assignment, he begins feeling out of place. An extraction goes wrong, and Sam suspects Lunar of trying to replace him as he realises someone else is on the Moon.

Cast

Kevin Spacey as Gertie, the robot (voice)
Sam Rockwell as Sam Bell
Kaya Scodelario as Eve Bell
Matt Berry as Overmeyers
Malcolm Stewart as The Technician
Benedict Wong as Thompson
Robin Chalk as Sam
Dominique McElligott as Tess Bell

Info

Moon was produced at Shepperton Studios in the United Kingdom, where it filmed for 33 days. Jones preferred using models instead of digital animation. Jones hired effects specialists who worked on Silent Running for his film. He also hired a set designer from Alien to help design the lunar rover used in the film. The moon base was created as a full 360-degree set, being 85-90 feet long and approximately 70 feet wide. Gertie, the movie's robotwas designed to be bound to a rail within the base since the tether was critical storywise. The visual effects were provided by Cinesite, who sought cut-price deals with independent films. Since Jones had an effects background with commercials, he drew on his past experiences in creating effects under a small budget.

History

The film premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival in January 2009. Sony Pictures Classics will commercially distribute the film in the United States and Canada in June 2009.

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