It is the near future. Astronaut Sam Bell is living on the far side of the moon, completing a three-year contract with Lunar Industries to mine Earth's primary source of energy, Helium-3. It is a lonely job, made harder by a broken satellite that allows no live communications home. Thankfully, his time on the moon is nearly over, and Sam will be reunited with his wife, Tess, and their three-year-old daughter, Eve, in only a few short weeks. Suddenly, Sam's health starts to deteriorate. Painful (more...)headaches, hallucinations and a lack of focus lead to an almost fatal accident on a routine drive on the moon in a lunar rover. While recuperating back at the base (with no memory of how he got there), Sam meets a younger, angrier version of himself, who claims to be there to fulfill the same three-year contract Sam started all those years ago. Confined with what appears to be a clone of his earlier self, and with a "support crew" on its way to help put the base back into productive order, Sam is fighting the clock to discover what's going on and where he fits into company plans.

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Rated R for language

Length: 97 minutes

Released: June 12, 2009 NY/LA

Score: 2.0

Cast: Kevin Spacey, Sam Rockwell, Matt Berry, Kaya Scodelario, Benedict Wong

Director: Duncan Jones
Producer: Stuart Fenegan, Trudie Styler
Writer: Duncan Jones, Nathan Parker
Genre: SciFi/Fantasy, Suspense/Thriller
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics