The Astronaut's Wife
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| The Astronaut's Wife | |
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 The Astronaut's Wife DVD cover |
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| Directed by | Rand Ravich |
| Produced by | Andrew Lazar |
| Written by | Rand Ravich |
| Starring | Johnny Depp Charlize Theron |
| Music by | George S. Clinton |
| Cinematography | Allen Daviau |
| Editing by | Tim Alverson Steve Mirkovich |
| Distributed by | New Line Cinema |
| Release date(s) | August 27, 1999 |
| Running time | 109 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $34,000,000 (estimated) |
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The Astronaut's Wife is a 1999 science fiction/thriller film directed and written by Rand Ravich. It stars Johnny Depp, Charlize Theron and Victoria Abril amongst others. The original music score is composed by George S. Clinton. The film's taglines are Imagine the face of terror is the one you love. and Witness the birth of pure evil.
It was nominated for best film at the Catalonian International Film Festival in Sitges in 1999.
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[edit] Plot summary
Spencer Armacost (Depp) is a NASA astronaut who is on a routine mission in space when something goes horribly wrong and it looks as if he is doomed. He loses contact with Earth for two minutes along with his colleague Alex Streck (Cassavetes). They return home to their respective spouses, but Spencer's wife Jillian (Theron) sees a change in Spencer and becomes suspicious. She begins to question what happened in the time they lost contact. Jillian has suffered depression in the past and would like to start a family, so she is initially thrilled with Spencer's return to Earth. She also becomes pregnant but feels something out of this world is living inside of her. As her pregnancy advances, Jillian's anxienties increases, but has something really happened to Spencer, or have Jillian's old demons merely resurfaced?
[edit] Cast
- Johnny Depp as Commander Spencer Armacost
- Charlize Theron as Jillian Armacost
- Joe Morton as Sherman Reese, NASA Representative
- Clea DuVall as Nan
- Donna Murphy as Natalie Streck
- Nick Cassavetes as Capt. Alex Streck
- Samantha Eggar as Dr. Patraba
- Gary Grubbs as NASA Director
- Blair Brown as Shelly McLaren
- Tom Noonan as Jackson McLaren
- Tom O'Brien as Allen Dodge
- Lucy Lin as Shelly Carter
- Michael Crider as Pat Elliott
- Cole Sprouse as Twin
- Dylan Sprouse as Twin
[edit] Influences
It has been noted that the plot of The Astronaut's Wife is apparetly influenced by The Quatermass Experiment (1953) and its feature film adaptation (1955), the plot of which revolves around an astronaut who returns to Earth possessed by an alien organism.[1][2]
