Trapped in another dimension, Dad Cooper is trying to get home to Murphy. Meanwhile, back on earth, a grown-up Murphy (Jessica Chastain) has become a scientist at NASA and is racing to communicate with her father through time and space to save humanity and bring home her dad. The crew head for Planet Mann, named after the astronaut (a miscast Matt Damon) who is still transmitting signals from there. That turns frosty when she is outvoted over which of the three research stations to target. The rest of the story consists of the space ship Endurance’s adventures and mishaps, as well as the evolving relationship between Amelia and Cooper. You just know that watch (time – get it?) is important and it proves to be. Murphy is furious at her father and rejects a watch that he leaves with her as a parting gift. Never mind that Cooper hasn’t flown in years and hasn’t been trained in the new space ship, the Endurance, he must leave immediately. Cooper is making a sacrifice but is determined to return to his family alive. Given the time differential between the planets they will be exploring and earth, it is doubtful Cooper and his crew of four humans (including Amelia) and two robots will return before Murphy is a grown woman. Cooper’s mission is supposed to collect any data gathered to determine if any planet can sustain life. Three previous missions have sent astronauts to likely habitable planets. Brand tells Cooper that he is fairly certain there is a wormhole, presumably created by extraterrestrial beings to facilitate the passage from earth to another habitable planet. The message sends them to a secret NASA space station where director Professor Brand (Michael Caine) and his daughter Amelia (Anne Hathaway, looking like Liza Minnelli in Cabaret) seem to be waiting for a test pilot like Cooper to show up. One day, when dust settles in her room in a pattern, she and Cooper figure out that the ‘ghost’ is sending them messages carried on gravitational waves through binary coordinates in the dust. Murphy believes she is in touch with a kind of ghost from outer space, but she’s a rebel who has been expelled from her backwards school so there’s more to it than that. Test pilot-turned-corn farmer Cooper (McConaughey) lives in a shabby, sprawling farm house with his precocious, ten-year-old daughter Murphy (Mackenzie Foy), conventional son Tom (Timothée Chalamet) and rock-solid father Donald (John Lithgow). The earth’s supply of oxygen is diminishing and the only crop that still grows, corn, is being destroyed by dust storms. Interstellar begins, as do most dystopian Sci-Fi films, with the United States facing even bigger problems than it has now. But for the rest of us, Interstellar is a visually stunning, but soulless and sometimes tedious three hours, all geared to a punch line that some Sci-Fi fans, and astrophysics, in particular will appreciate. Many viewers will have a grand time strapping themselves down with Space Cowboy McConaughey for this mind-bending epic voyage from the cornfields of the dystopian Midwest to Saturn and galaxies beyond. And Nolan lucked out when his choice of star, Matthew McConaughey, won an Academy Award for Dallas Buyers Club earlier this year. 12, 162 min.Īfter writing, directing and producing the mega hit The Dark Knight Rises (the conclusion to his lucrative Batman trilogy) and receiving four Academy Awards for the cryptic Inception, Interstellar, a kind of Inception with a plot, is a logical next step for Christopher Nolan. Joyce Glasser reviews Interstellar (November 7, 2014) Cert.
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