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Why
Astronauts Shouldn't Get Married
Now here comes
an interesting little film starring Johnny Depp, Charlize Theron,
Blair Brown, Nick Cassavetes, and Joe Morton.
The Astronaut's
Wife is a psychological thriller in which Johnny Depp plays Spencer
Armacost, a NASA spacer dispatched on a mission with his team mate,
Captain Alex Streck.
While in orbit
an accident occurs that cuts off contact between the shuttle and
ground control for over three minutes.
Both astronauts
come back from the mission with no memory of their lost time. It
all gets a bit hairy when Captain Streck dies of causes the NASA
doctors can't identify.
The surviving
astronaut's wife Jillian, up the duff with twins, begins to realise
that something happened on the mission during her husband's lost
time - and it isn't anything nice for her, her kids, or indeed,
the planet as a whole.
Wife Charlize
Theron is probably best known as the female lead in The Devil's
Advocate. And Johnny Depp, well if you haven't heard of him, then
you're not getting out to the cinema enough.
This film struck
us as a little like an episode of the X-Files featuring no FBI agents.
In fact, we
seem to recall a NASA astronaut alien possession story in space
type story in one of the first season X File episodes.
It's a diverting
enough movie, but the premise is a little basic and the film's 'hidden
secret' will hardly come as much of a surprise to any heavy sci-fi
fans out there.
More details
can be found on their site.
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