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Moon
Winner Best Actor, Sam Rockwell - SIFF 2009 Golden Space Needle Audience Awards
After spending nearly three years alone on the moon overseeing the Lunar Industries mining operations, Sam Bell is ready to leave behind the monotonous isolation of Selene station. With only the base’s computer GERTY for a companion and the occasional taped messages sent to him by his wife and daughter, Sam does everything possible to ensure the continuous flow of Helium-3 (vital for Earth’s clean energy production), while not succumbing to the daily ennui of lunar life. However, with only two weeks to go before his contract expires, the tedium begins to take its toll. Sam begins to experience migraines and hallucinations, which interfere with his work. After one such attack causes him to crash his rover, he awakes in sickbay only to discover his circumstances within the station have radically altered. Buoyed by Sam Rockwell’s emphatic performance, director Duncan Jones’ Moon harkens back to such science-fiction films as Silent Running and Solaris wherein the futuristic façade falls away to reveal a potent exploration of the humanity trapped within. Director Duncan Jones expected to attend both screenings
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Cast & Crew
Director: Duncan Jones
Producer: Stuart Fenegan, Trudie Styler
Editor: Nicolas Gastor
Screenwriter: Nathan Parke
Cinematographer: Gary Shaw
Music: Clint Mansell
Principal Cast: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElligott, Benedict Wong, Matt Berry
Filmography: Debut Feature Film
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at last ... smart sci-fi, May 26, 2009
By Joane O'Brien
“Moon uses the genre of science fiction brilliantly to explore important questions about the nature of humanity. Great script, wonderful performance from Sam Rockwell, and the movie ends at exactly the right place. Far too much junk is billed as science fiction and fans like myself sit through too”
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All work and no play makes Sam a dull boy, May 26, 2009
By Anais Vitalis
“If I could, I'd give this film a 3.5. The film had so much potential, but it failed to completely deliver. The beginning is drawn out, though the film gets better as it progresses; Sam Rockwell's performance was admirable, though not extraordinary; and the film takes a stab at many great (albeit”
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Find the unexpected, May 27, 2009
By Zheng Wang
“I enjoyed this movie... in a totally unexpected way. I thought it was a sci-fi suspense thriller; turned out it's more like a sci-fi character drama. The first act was kinda slow, and during the second act I seriously doubted whether the movie would work. However, the third act really pulled it”
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Character in Space, May 27, 2009
By Sarah MacAaron
“**Review Contains Spoilers!**I would give this movie a 3.5 as well. The two problems with this film were the pacing and predictability. One of the first things my friend said as we were exiting the film, "Does he (the director) watch sci-fi films?" This comment was referring to the main plot”
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2001 with a pulse, May 27, 2009
By Daniel Howes
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Moon (2009) is writer/director Duncan Jones' debut feature, and it is a promising start to what should be a long career. The film is a throwback to pre-CGI sci-fi gems of the 70's and 80's, such as Alien and other such offspring of the phenomenon that was 2001: A Space Odyssey. Though the”
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