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Sunshine

  • 20072007
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  • 1h 47m
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Cillian Murphy in Sunshine (2007)
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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.
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    • Danny Boyle
    • Alex Garland
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    • Cillian Murphy
    • Rose Byrne
    • Chris Evans
    • Danny Boyle
    • Alex Garland
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    • Trivia
      The actors all had to live together in order to create a palpable feeling onscreen that they all knew each other.
    • 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: At the end of time, a moment will come when just one man remains. Then the moment will pass. Man will be gone. There will be nothing to show that we were ever here... but stardust.

    • Crazy credits
      At the end of the credits the sound of the distress beacon of the Icarus can be heard in the background.
    • Connections
      Featured in Troldspejlet: Episode #38.3 (2007)
    • Soundtracks
      Peggy Sussed
      Performed by Underworld

      Written by Karl Hyde & Rick Smith

      Published by Sherlock Holmes Music Publishing Ltd. / Chysalis Music Group USA

      Licensed courtesy of Smith & Hyde Productions t/a Underworldlive.com

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    Danny Boils
    I loved Danny Boyle's "Shallow Grave" I thought there was a Polanskian, Hitchcockian, Chabrolian creature trying to come out. I was wrong - it happens more often than not - but Danny is moving away from me or I from him, in any case we're like strangers now. What made me love "Shallow Grave" were the characters and the way he introduced them to us. I felt involved, totally involved. In "Sunshine" the detachment was such that I couldn't even follow. Impressive, virtuoso film-making to be sure but cold an impersonal. I could watch Cillian Murphy's face for hours without getting bored but I got bored looking at his face because I didn't have a clue who he was and after a while, I didn't care. Mr Boyle, go back to graves, human graves, earth graves, please, do it for me.
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    • What's with the flashing images on Icarus I?
    • Why does Searle begin to burn himself?
    • What is the ultimate objective of the Icarus' respective missions to the sun?

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    • Release date
      • July 27, 2007 (United States)
      • United Kingdom
      • United States
      • Fox Searchlight (United States)
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      • Hakberget, Gärdet, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
    • Production companies
      • DNA Films
      • Ingenious Film Partners
      • Moving Picture Company (MPC)
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    • 1 hour 47 minutes
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      • Dolby Digital
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