The Astronaut's Wife (1999)
Genre: Scifi / Thriller
Duration: 109 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Rand Ravich
Stars: Johnny Depp, Charlize Theron and Joe Morton
IMDb score:
5,4 (59.084)
Releasedate: 27 August 1999
The Astronaut's Wife plot
"How well do you know the one you love?"
Jillian Armacost is married to astronaut Spencer. When he is in space, she is always afraid that something will happen. Then her fear becomes reality: during a routine mission, Earth loses contact with the space shuttle for two minutes. Spencer survives the incident and back on Earth everything seems fine, but Jillian doesn't trust it. She thinks her husband has changed. When she becomes pregnant, she starts having nightmares and becomes depressed. The feeling continues to gnaw that something is wrong with her husband. She starts to get scared of him, gets more and more confused and tries to figure out what's going on.
Actors and actresses
Commander Spencer Armacost
Jillian Armacost
Sherman Reese
Nan
Captain Alex Streck
Natalie Streck
NASA Director
Shelly McLaren
Jackson McLaren
Allen Dodge
Reviews & comments
Shadowed
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- 11557 messages
- 6803 votes
Very mediocre.
Only watched because of the cast. Despite the reviews that Depp plays far from his best role here, it is often an actor that I am curious about. I have never found Theron incredibly special but reasonable as an actress.
To start off on a positive note, sometimes it is indeed quite atmospheric. The nightmare, the train and the dark corridors vault were filmed quite nicely. Theron acts reasonably well, but Depp is indeed a setback, not threatening and as if he didn't feel like it.
But that's about all. The film is long-winded and boring, dialogues to cry about, very little happens and a really incredible story is also hard to find. Fairly cliche and scares that just don't work.
Big disappointment, while so much more could be done with the idea. Unfortunately..
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scorsese
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- 13430 messages
- 11264 votes
Mediocre film about an astronaut who survives an accident in space and returns to his wife on Earth. It all starts quite mysteriously, but the film quickly becomes monotonous and repetitive. It doesn't really want to be exciting. Charlize Theron is doing well and Johnny Depp gets too little to do.
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Sergio Leone
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- 4461 messages
- 3142 votes
Pretty bad.
I had absolutely no idea beforehand what this movie was going to be about. Recorded on VijfTV I suspected a romantic drama, but it turns out not to be at all. It's more of a long drawn-out thriller with some sci-fi. Johnny Depp gets to play the mysterious astronaut for two hours, something he does remarkably flat and stately. Charlize Theron brings a little more life to the brewery, unfortunately in a somewhat too sawy character.
But that's really just the bed in which the entire movie is sick. The tension is more of a TV level. It's really just a two hour wait to see if it will indeed be thee astronaut possessed by something alien or not. Unfortunately, too little is done with that character to make it something memorable. The logical end result is a mostly boring film.
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