This week we travel back to 2014 with Interstellar, Christopher Nolan’s cosmic gut-punch starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, and Jessica Chastain. Set in a dying future where Earth is running out of food and time, former pilot Cooper joins a desperate mission through a wormhole in search of humanity’s next home. But does Interstellar truly launch into greatness, or did we find ourselves lost in space?
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Release Details
Title: Interstellar
Year: 2014
Director: Christopher Nolan
Writer(s): Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan
Top Billed Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Michael Caine, Matt Damon
Running Time: 2h 49m / 169 minutes
Country of Origin: United States, United Kingdom
Official Release Date(s): U.S. theatrical rollout began November 5, 2014, with wide theatrical release dated November 7, 2014; U.K. release was November 7, 2014. Rotten Tomatoes currently lists the wide theatrical release as November 7, 2014.
Other Notable Projects
Christopher Nolan: Memento, The Dark Knight, Inception, Dunkirk, Oppenheimer. Interstellar sits in a fascinating middle zone of Nolan’s career: less crime-clockwork than Memento, less pure puzzle-box than Inception, and more emotionally naked than a lot of his filmography.
Jonathan Nolan: The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, and later co-creating Westworld and Fallout. His fingerprints help explain why Interstellar has both high-concept mechanics and a strong current of existential dread.
Matthew McConaughey: Dallas Buyers Club, Mud, True Detective. This was right in the middle of the “McConaissance,” and the movie leans heavily on his ability to make cosmic scale feel personal.
Anne Hathaway: The Devil Wears Prada, Les Misérables, The Dark Knight Rises. Her role here is key because she has to sell both the intellectual and emotional arguments of the film without making either feel silly.
Jessica Chastain: Zero Dark Thirty, The Help, later The Martian and The Eyes of Tammy Faye. Her work gives the Earthbound half of the story a lot of its urgency and heartbreak.
Michael Caine: The Dark Knight Trilogy, The Cider House Rules, Children of Men. By this point he had become one of Nolan’s secret weapons: the guy who can turn exposition into gravitas.
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