On a routine journey through space to a new home, two passengers, sleeping in suspended animation, are awakened 90 years too early when their ship malfunctions. As Jim and Aurora face living the rest of their lives on board, with every luxury they could ever ask for, they begin to fall for each otherer, unable to deny their intense attraction... until they discover the ship is in grave danger. With the lives of 5000 sleeping passengers at stake, only Jim and Aurora can save them all.
'Passengers' stars Chris Pratt (l.) and Jennifer Lawrence (r.).
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“Passengers” is a sci-fi escapade that, like most of its ilk, wants to be a deep-think experience, too. Directed by Morten Tyldum (“The Imitation Game”) and written by Jon Spaihts, it’s set in the distant future aboard a spaceship housing 5,000 paying passengers and more than 200 crew members. All are initially encased in pods in a state of inanimate hibernation for the 120-year journey from an overpopulated Earth to the more hospitable planet Homestead II.
When one of the passengers, Jim (Chris Pratt), an engineer, is accidentally jostled out of hibernation 30 years into the flight due to a meteor hit, he finds himself alone in the big, gleaming, well-appointed spaceship, with only an android bartender (Michael Sheen) to keep him company – until he makes the decision to awaken New York writer Aurora (Jennifer Lawrence), the no-longer sleeping beauty who becomes, for a time, his soul mate. Without the ability to reenter their pods, Jim and Aurora will die long before the spaceship reaches Homestead II, so there is a poignancy in their predicament.
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