Interstellar

 

In the near future, Earth is no longer able to sustain humanity. Crops are routinely ravaged by blight,[5] dust storms scour the land, and mankind has regressed to an agrarian society. Cooper, a former NASA test pilot and engineer turned farmer lives with his family: his father-in-law, Donald; his son, Tom; and his 10-year-old daughter, Murphy — better known as "Murph" — who believes their house is haunted by a ghost that is trying to communicate with her by moving books off a shelf in her room. Cooper challenges Murph to prove the ghost's existence through scientific inquiry. He later discovers the "ghost" is an unknown form of intelligence sending them coded messages by means of gravitational waves, altering the dust on the floor in a binary pattern that directs them to the coordinates of a secret NASA installation led by Professor Brand.

 

Brand reveals to Cooper that a wormhole has been discovered in the solar system orbiting Saturn, and that humanity's only chance for survival is to traverse the wormhole to colonise new worlds in another galaxy. NASA scientists believe that extra-dimensional beings are communicating with them and have created the wormhole for humanity's use. Cooper is recruited to pilot Endurance, an experimental spacecraft, to follow the Lazarus Mission, a series of manned capsules sent through the wormhole to survey a dozen potential planets' long-term habitability. The data from Lazarus has given NASA three potentially habitable planets: Miller, Edmunds, and Mann, named after the astronauts who carried out the surveys. Once their viability is confirmed, humanity will follow aboard the NASA facility, which is an enormous space station.

 

Cooper's decision to join Endurance breaks Murph's heart, and the two part on bad terms. He joins Brand's daughter, Amelia; physicist Romilly; geographer Doyle; and two multi-purpose robots — designated CASE and TARS — on a two-year spaceflight to the wormhole before crossing over into the new galaxy. While traversing the wormhole, Amelia encounters an extra-dimensional presence that she believes has created the wormhole to save humanity.

 

Once through, Endurance follows the signal left by Miller's expedition, but they quickly encounter a problem: the candidate planet is in close proximity to Gargantua, a nearby rotating black hole, and due to its gravitational pull, time on the planet is much slower than on Earth. They discover that the planet is inhospitable as giant tidal waves race across its surface. Doyle is killed by a wave as the crew attempts to retrieve Miller's data recording instrument, and their departure is delayed by an hour. They discover 23 years have passed for Romilly on Endurance when they return.

 

Back on Earth, Murph is now an adult and has joined NASA where she attempts to solve a physics problem that has troubled Brand for years: the question of how humans can escape Earth's gravitational pull en masse. Brand's health deteriorates, and he admits that he solved the necessary equation decades earlier but realised that he needed data from a singularity behind a black hole to complete it. Coming to the conclusion that there is no hope that humanity can escape Earth, he put his faith in a "population bomb", a mass repopulation project using fertilised embryos to start humankind over, a solution which sacrifices Earth's population.

 

With the lengthy mission to retrieve Miller's data having consumed valuable resources, Endurance is forced to choose between following Mann or Edmunds. Cooper and Amelia clash, with Cooper accusing her of being compromised by her emotional attachment to Edmunds; Amelia counter-accuses Cooper of being compromised by his desire to see his family again as Endurance can only reach one planet and still return to Earth. The crew find and revive Mann on an icy, ammonia-saturated planet, where he had been stranded with his now-incapacitated multi-purpose robot, KIPP. However, Mann has forged data about the viability of his planet so the Endurance would come and end his isolation. When Cooper decides to return to Earth, Mann attempts to kill Cooper, cracking his helmet and leaving him to die. As Romilly is killed by a booby-trapped KIPP, Mann flees to Endurance with the shuttle, intending to take the population bomb to Edmunds's planet instead. Amelia rescues Cooper, and the two give chase but are unable to prevent Mann from faultily docking with Endurance, which kills Mann when the airlock depressurizes. With TARS's help, Cooper manages to get a damaged Endurance back under control.

 

Cooper and Amelia formulate a plan to pilot Endurance to Gargantua's event horizon and to jettison TARS once his shuttle runs out of fuel to shed mass and to gather data on the singularity behind the black hole, which they hope to relay back to Earth. Once the robot transmits the data back to them, they would slingshot themselves on a course to Edmunds's planet. Cooper also releases his shuttle into Gargantua to reduce the Endurance's weight, allowing Amelia to escape the gravitational pull. He ejects before his craft is destroyed, and comes to a halt in an extra-dimensional space where time is not linear. Cooper realises the extra-dimensional beings are in fact a future form of humanity who have evolved to the point of transcending three-dimensional time and space, and have come back in time to create the wormhole to ensure humanity's survival. Now equipped with TARS's data on the singularity, Cooper is able to communicate with Murph across the dimensional barrier from inside a tesseract through gravitational waves, making him the "ghost" from her childhood. With this information, Murph is able to complete Brand's equation, allowing Earth's population to be evacuated.

 

His mission now complete, Cooper is transported back through the wormhole and rescued by a NASA ship. He awakens aboard the NASA station orbiting Saturn and is reunited with an elderly Murph. She convinces him to go to Amelia, who has located the remains of Edmunds's expedition and a planet that can sustain life. After saying goodbye, he steals a NASA ship and begins the journey.

 

IMDB Rating: 9.1/10 from 102,480 votes votes

Release: 2014 / Interstellar

Genre: Adventure | Sci-Fi

Director: Christopher Nolan

Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain

Synopsis: In the near future Earth has been devastated by drought and famine, causing a scarcity in food and extreme changes in climate. When humanity is facing extinction, a mysterious rip in the space-time continuum is discovered, giving mankind the opportunity to widen their lifespan. A group of explorers must travel beyond our solar system in search of a planet that can sustain life. The crew of the Endurance are required to think bigger and go further than any human in history as they embark on an interstellar voyage, into the unknown. Coop, the pilot of the Endurance, must decide between seeing his children again and the future of the human race.

 

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