Moon

2009
R
1h 37m

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7.8/10

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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 allAstronaut 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.

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IMDb RATING

7.8/10

384K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

2,123

See production info at IMDbPro

Won 1 BAFTA Award
- 28 wins & 37 nominations total

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Trivia
Originally, writer/director Duncan Jones wanted to cast Sam Rockwell in what eventually became Mute (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 Alien (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
They are harvesting H3 on the far side of the moon, but a few times the Earth can be seen in the sky near the base. Since the moon does not rotate (relative to earth) there is one side where the Earth is always above the horizon (the side facing earth) and one side where the Earth is always below the horizon (the side that points away). The Earth cannot be seen from any part of the far side. The Earth is always below your feet.

They're not on the far side. They're on the dark side, obviously near the terminator line judging by the shafts of light beams that are not coming from machinery. It would be possible to stand at the terminator line with your head in sunlight, looking at Earth and your body in shadow.

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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Featured review

10/10

Utterly Fantastic and Inspired

Go see this movie! I've been lucky enough to have an opportunity to see this movie down here at SXSW and I am the better for it.

You don't really stumble upon many riveting, independent, sci-fi films that look beautiful(let alone don't contain aliens and space magic) and capture major emotional themes successfully. Moon accomplishes this, and with very little CGI at that.

Sam Bell is an astronaut working for a corporation on the far side of the moon. His job? Maintaining a lunar facility and the automated machines which are harvesting the moon's surface for Helium 3. The harvested material is then sent back to Earth to use as energy.

Sam is on the very last leg of a three year contract and is quite anxious to return to his wife and daughter. Barring any incidents, Sam will be able to leave his solitude. But something does go wrong.

That said, tremendous acting by Sam Rockwell carries this film - mainly because he is basically the only person in the movie. I'm not talking about Cast Away meets the moon This film explores loneliness much deeper than that, and with much more emotion as well. Luckily for us there are no pieces of sports equipment on which the lead dotes, but instead we're blessed with a monotonous talking robot(voiced by Kevin Spacey) reminiscent of Hal from 2001 notoriety.

I advise that people go see this film, not only to support Duncan, the director, and Sam, but also to explore to possibilities of space and the humanity of loneliness.

Don't go in expecting to find what I have discussed, but go in expecting to find something inside yourself.