Ad Astra – A Space Journey

An American adventurous and science fiction genre film co-produced, directed, and co-written by James Gray. It was also produced by Brad Pitt, Jeremy Kleiner, Rodrigo, Arnon Milchan, Dede Gardner, Anthony, Teixeira, & Katagas and was co-written by Ethan Gross.

It was produced under the Bona Film Group, Plan B, Regency Enterprises, New Regency, Keep Your Head Productions, TSG Entertainment, RT Features, and Mad River Pictures. It got its distribution under the Bona Film Group(China) and 20th Century Fox(Worldwide).

The film was officially released in Venice on 29th August 2019 and in the United States on 20th September 2019.

Cast

The film involves Brad Pitt as Roy McBride, Rutt Negga as Helen Lantos, John Ortiz as Lieutenant General Rivas, Liv Tyler as Eve – wife of Major McBride, Tommy Lee Jones as H. Clifford McBride, Donald Sutherland as Colonel Thomas Pruitt, John Finn as Brigadier General Stroud, Kimberly Elise as Lorraine Deavers, Greg Bryk as Chip Games, Natasha Lyonne as Tanya Pincus, Lisa Gay Hamilton as Adjutant General Amelia Vogel, Sean Blakemore as Willie Levant, Lorean Dean as Donald Stanford, Bobby Nish as Franklin Yoshida, and Donnie Keshawarz as Captain Lawrence Tanner as the main lead cast.

Synopsis

The film features and follows the storyline based on an astronaut who goes in the space to find his lost father. His experiment of finding his father threatens the entire Solar System.

It was a movie series consisting of an enormous energy rush that scares the entire solar system and the unprotected and unsafe Earth. The United States space command speculates that the reason for all the space deviation is the enthusiastic Lima Project and the renowned lost astronaut, Clifford McBride.

Now, Clifford’s son, an unblemished astronaut, Major Roy McBride travels to the edge of the Universe for a protected and guarded mission to Neptune, the cold Blue Planet to figure out and identify whether his father is still alive and also to locate the problem that scares the stability of our solar system or universe.

Well, will Roy be able to find out his dad 4.3 billion kilometers away from the Earth? Or would he be able to determine the problems threatening the galaxy? The film leaves the audience in great suspense with such questions.

Awards

The film has received various awards and nominations. It has won an award for the category of Best Visual Effect at the San Diego Film Critics Society.

It has bee nominated for the category of Best Cinematography at the San Diego Film Critics Society and for Golden Lion Award at Venice Film Festival.

It has some pending nominations for Critics Choice Movie Awards, Hollywood Critics Association and many more for several different categories.

Reviews

The film got reviewed by the audience as the best visual thrilling journey based film through the far reach of space and enchanting the bond between a parent and a child or can say, father and son.

It is remarked as the best and most glamorous & beautiful film of the year, even after making a little sense. In the film, Brad Pitt’s performance deflects as one of his best performances.

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