INTERSTELLAR

Interstellar is a 2014 epic science fiction film directed, co-written, and co-produced by Christopher Nolan. It stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, and Michael Caine. Set in a dystopian future where humanity is struggling to survive, the film follows a group of astronauts who travel through a wormhole near Saturn in search of a new home for humanity.
Brothers Christopher and Jonathan Nolan wrote the screenplay, which had its origins in a Jonathan developed in 2007. Christopher produced Interstellar with his wife, Emma Thomas, through their production company Syncopy, and with Lynda Obst Lynda Obst Productions. Caltech theoretical physicist Kip Thorne was an executive producer, acted as a scientific consultant, and wrote a tie-in book, The Science of Interstellar. Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., and Legendary Pictures co-financed the film. Cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema shot it on 35 mm in anamorphic format and IMAX 70 mm. Principal photography began in late 2013 and took place in Alberta (Canada), Iceland, and Los Angeles. Interstellar uses extensive practical and miniature effects and the company Double Negative created additional digital effects.
Interstellar premiered on October 26, 2014, in Los Angeles, California. In the United States, it was first released on film stock, expanding to venues using digital projectors. The film had a worldwide gross of over $677 million, making it the tenth-highest-grossing film of 2014. Interstellar received positive reviews for its screenplay, direction, themes, visual effects, musical score, acting, and ambition. At the 87th Academy Awards, the film won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and was nominated for Best Original Score, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing, and Best Production Design.

Plot
In 2067, crop blights and dust storms threaten humanitys survival. Corn is the last viable crop. The world has also regressed into a post-truth society where younger generations are taught ideas such as the Apollo moon missions were faked. Widowed engineer and former NASA pilot Joseph Cooper is now a farmer. Living with him are his father-in-law, Donald; his 15-year-old son, Tom; and 10-year-old daughter, Murphy. After a storm, strange dust patterns inexplicably appear on Murphys bedroom floor; she attributes the anomaly to a ghost. Murphy initially believes the patterns to be Morse code. However, Cooper eventually deduces that gravity variations caused the patterns and are a binary code for geographic coordinates. Cooper, accompanied by Murphy, who hides inside the truck, follows the coordinates to a secret NASA facility headed by Professor John Brand, Coopers former supervisor. Professor Brand says gravitational anomalies have happened elsewhere. Forty-eight years earlier, unknown beings positioned a wormhole near Saturn, opening a path to a distant galaxy with twelve potentially habitable worlds located near a black hole named Gargantua. Twelve volunteers (the Lazarus astronauts) traveled through the wormhole to individually survey the planets. Astronauts Miller, Edmunds, and Mann reported positive results. Based on their data, Professor Brand conceived two plans to ensure humanitys survival. Plan A involves developing a gravitational propulsion theory to propel a mass exodus; utilizing gravity to jettison artificial habitat stations into orbit and beyond. Plan B involves launching the Endurance spacecraft carrying 5,000 frozen human embryos to colonize a habitable planet.
After some persuasion, Cooper is recruited to pilot the Endurance by Professor Brand. The crew includes scientists Dr. Amelia Brand (Professor Brands daughter), Dr. Romilly, Dr. Doyle, and robots TARS and CASE. Before leaving, Cooper gives a distraught Murphy his wristwatch to compare their relative time for when he returns. Cooper mentions to Murphy that by the time he gets back to earth, Cooper and Murphy may be the same age; Murphy becomes distraught because Cooper does not know when he will return to earth. After traversing the wormhole, Romilly studies the black hole while Cooper, Doyle, and Brand descend in a landing craft to investigate Millers planet, an ocean world. The plan is to descend into the planet and get out as fast as possible. This is because of time dilation and every hour on Millers planet is 7 years on Earth. If the crew spends too much time on Millers planet, too much time may pass and everyone would die on Earth. After finding wreckage from Millers ship, a tidal wave as huge as a mountain kills Doyle and delays the landers departure. Due to the proximity of the black hole, time is severely dilated. As a result, 23 years and 4 months have elapsed for Romilly on Endurance by the time Cooper and Brand return a few hours later.
With the Endurance having only enough fuel to reach one planet, the crew debates on whether to go to Edmunds planet, which has slightly better telemetry, or Manns planet, which is still sending positive data. Brand wants to go to Edmunds planet, but Cooper claims she wants to go there only because she is in love with Edmunds. Cooper chooses Manns planet. On Manns planet, the Endurance crew revives him from cryostasis. Meanwhile, Murphy, now a scientist, transmits a message announcing Professor Brand has died. She has learned that Plan A, requiring unattainable data from within a black hole, was never viable. Plan B was always Professor Brands only option. The reason Professor Brand lied about Plan A being viable is to give everyone hope. Murphy accuses Amelia and Cooper of knowing those left on Earth were doomed. Manns frozen planet is uninhabitable; he had sent falsified data in order to be rescued. Mann attempts to murder Cooper, then escapes in a lander and heads for Endurance. Romilly is killed by Manns explosive booby trap and Amelia and Cooper race to the Endurance in another lander. Mann dies during a failed manual docking operation, severely damaging Endurance. The explosion causes the Endurance to spin and slowly descend into Manns planet, but Cooper regains control after a difficult docking maneuver. However, the Endurance has drifted too close to Gargantua and has been caught in its gravitational pull.


Millers planet orbiting Gargantua

With insufficient fuel to reach Edmunds planet, Cooper and Amelia plan to use a slingshot maneuver by using Gargantuas gravity to propel them towards Edmunds planet. However, being so close to Gargantuas gravity, time dilation adds another 51 years. In the process, Cooper tricks Amelia by ejecting himself and TARS to shed weight to ensure the Endurance reaches Edmunds planet. Slipping through the event horizon of Gargantua, Cooper and TARS eject from their respective craft and find themselves inside a massive tesseract, possibly constructed by future humans. Across different time periods, Cooper can see through the bookcases of Murphys old room on Earth and weakly interact with its gravity. Cooper realizes he was Murphys ghost and manipulates the second hand of the wristwatch he gave her, using Morse code to transmit the quantum data that TARS collected from inside the event horizon. Cooper and TARS are ejected from the tesseract. Cooper awakens on a space habitat orbiting Saturn, where he reunites with an elderly Murphy. Using the quantum data sent by Cooper, the younger Murphy solved the gravitational propulsion theory for Plan A, enabling humanitys exodus and survival. Nearing death and with her own family, Murphy urges Cooper to return to Amelia. Cooper, who is now 124 years old, along with TARS takes a spacecraft to rejoin Amelia and CASE, who have begun to colonize Edmunds planet. In the ending scene, Amelia can be seen crouching over a burial grave made with the identification plaque from Edmunds cryo-capsule. She removes her space suits helmet, breathing the air of humanitys eventual new planet.