Credits
Distributed by
Netflix
Production companies
Smokehouse Pictures
Anonymous Content
Directed by
George Clooney
Screenplay by
Mark L. Smith
Based on
Good Morning, Midnight
by Lily Brooks-Dalton
Produced by
Grant Heslov
George Clooney
Keith Redmon
Bard Dorros
Cliff Roberts
Starring
George Clooney
Felicity Jones
David Oyelowo
Tiffany Boone
Demián Bichir
Kyle Chandler
Caoilinn Springall
Cinematography
Martin Ruhe
Edited by
Stephen Mirrione
Music by
Alexandre Desplat
Synopsis
Augustine Lofthouse, a reclusive academic, has devoted his life to finding habitable planets where humanity can expand. In the present day, he meets Jean Sullivan after giving a presentation at a gala and the two form a romantic relationship. After a pregnancy scare, Sullivan leaves him because of his obsession with work and his inability to bond with other human beings. Several years later, when Lofthouse encounters her again, she tells him they have a daughter, whom he chooses not to meet. Thirty years later, in 2049, an unspecified disaster has wiped out most of the Earth's population and left the surface contaminated with ionizing radiation. Lofthouse, now much older, is the only person inhabiting a large Arctic base. A recent flashback shows him refusing to join the evacuation crew with Mason Mosley, knowing he does not have long to live due to an unidentified serious illness requiring hemodialysis and medical equipment at the base. He searches the base's computer systems for active crewed space missions to warn about the situation on Earth, and finds only one: the interplanetary craft Aether, returning from an exploration of Jupiter's habitable moon K-23, which Lofthouse discovered. To repair the damage, mission specialist Sully, currently pregnant, and her partner, Commander Adewole, conduct a spacewalk with flight engineer Maya. They repair the communications and radar, but are caught in the middle of a second asteroid field that fatally injures Maya. Sully reaches out to Lofthouse, who tells her not to return to Earth because of the disaster, but go back to K-23 and start a new life there. Aether's pilot, Tom Mitchell, refuses, but upon discovering his wife's final words and seeing the state of Earth's atmosphere, he understands that it is in the crew's best interests to go back to Jupiter's moon. Still, he decides to use one of the two re-entry vehicles to return to Earth, hoping to find his family who may have been evacuated to temporary safety. Sanchez, who saw Maya as a second daughter, decides to accompany him and bury her body on Earth. In her final communication with Lofthouse, Sully tells him that he was one of the reasons she joined NASA in the first place. She thanks him, telling him her mother Jean knew him, as he had given her a moon rock, and that her full name is Iris Sullivan. Lofthouse says he already knew her name, making it clear that the young girl he had been seeing was not real. When asked how he ended up at the base from which he contacted Aether, he says he thought he might be able to "help someone" (hinting that the reason that he kept track of Aether's mission was not just because he discovered the moon to which it went, but also because he knew Sully was his daughter and that she was part of that mission). Before heading out into the cold unprotected to die, Lofthouse tells Sully he is proud to have finally met her, and Sully describes K-23 to him. Sully and Adewole are left with nothing but to return to K-23 using a course provided by Lofthouse.
16 окт 2024
