A team of international astronauts is sent on a dangerous mission to reignite the dying Sun with a nuclear fission bomb in 2057.A team of international astronauts is sent on a dangerous mission to reignite the dying Sun with a nuclear fission bomb in 2057.A team of international astronauts is sent on a dangerous mission to reignite the dying Sun with a nuclear fission bomb in 2057.
- Awards
- 1 win & 22 nominations
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe actors all had to live together in order to create a palpable feeling onscreen that they all knew each other (Cillian Murphy was given dispensation to go home every night as his wife was pregnant at the time).
- Goofs(at around 50 mins) Searle's statement about 80% of dust being human skin is a commonly held, but false, urban myth. Common household dust on Earth is composed of many different things, and none of them individually account for anything close to 80% of it. Moreover, the crew of the Icarus I apparently committed mass suicide early in their mission (when they reached Mercury), and dead people do not produce new skin cells. And even then, Searle should be able to deduce that the inch-thick dust over everything could never have accumulated from the skin cells of such a small crew - dead or alive.
- Quotes
Pinbacker: Are you an angel?
[Panting]
Pinbacker: Has the time come?
Capa: Huh?
Pinbacker: I've been waiting so long.
Capa: Who are you?
Pinbacker: Who am I? At the end of time... a moment will come when just one man remains. Then the moment will pass. The man will be gone. There will be nothing to show that we were ever here... but stardust... The last man, alone with God. Am I that man? My God.
Capa: My God. Pinbacker.
Pinbacker: Not your God. Mine.
- Crazy creditsAt the end of the credits the sound of the distress beacon of the Icarus can be heard in the background.
- SoundtracksPeggy Sussed
Performed by Underworld
Written by Karl Hyde & Rick Smith
Published by Sherlock Holmes Music Publishing Ltd. / Chysalis Music Group USA
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However, an hour in things begin to degrade, with a couple of poor plot decisions that could have been forgiven if they had just moved on. But an hour and 16 minutes in they double down on one particularly bad plot choice, and the film degenerates into horror movie cliches (yes, horror) which simply have no place here and ruined what would have been and unusually sublime and moving science fiction drama. I would love to know what in the world they were thinking, allowing the script to devolve and go in a direction that does not do justice to all of the other labor and excellent creative decisions that went into other aspects of the movie. What a shame.
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Details
- Release date
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- Language
- Also known as
- Sunshine: Alerta solar
- Filming locations
- Hakberget, Gärdet, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden(Sydney scene)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- £26,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $3,675,753
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $242,964
- Jul 22, 2007
- Gross worldwide
- $34,806,812
- Runtime1 hour 47 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1