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[[File:Sunshine 2007film.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Promotional image for ''Sunshine (2007 film)''...]]

==Summary==


"50 years in the future, Earth's Sun is dying. If the Sun dies, so do we." A team of international astronauts are sent on a dangerous mission to reignite the dying Sun with a nuclear fission bomb in 2057.

==Details==

* Release Date: 2007
* Country/Language: US/US, English
* Genres/Technical: Science Fiction, Horror, Thriller
* Runtime: 1 hr 47 min
* Starring: Cillian Murphy, Rose Byrne, Chris Evans
* Director: [[Danny Boyle]]
* Writer: Alex Garland
* Producer/Production Co: DNA Films, Ingenious Film Partners, Moving Picture Company (MPC)
* View Trailer: ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8BSlqHAhuY link])

==Ratings==
===[http://www.mpaa.org/film-ratings/ MPAA Ratings]===

* Rated: R (Violence, Profanity)

===Tentacle Ratings===
A rough [[Tentacle Ratings|measure]] of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:
* S____ (One Tentacle: Debateably Lovecraftian; has almost no direct connection to Lovecraft's work)

Similar to ''[[Event Horizon (1997 film)]]'' and ''[[Alien (1979 franchise)]]'', this is a sort of Gothic haunted-house-in-space story; in this case, the main plot is said to be suspiciously similar to [[Clark Ashton Smith]]'s short story "Phoenix".

''Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.''

===Reviews===

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==Synopsis==

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In the not-too-distant future, Earth's dying sun spells the end for humanity. In a last-ditch effort to save the planet, a crew of eight men and women ventures into space with a device that could revive the star. However, an accident, a grave mistake and a distress beacon from a long-lost spaceship throw the crew and its desperate mission into a tailspin.
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==Notes==

===Comments, Trivia, Dedication===


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 * Robert Brodmerkel at The Horror Review ([http://www.horrorreview.com/sunshine/ link]) - "Early in the film one character jokingly refers to alien body count movies but, even when ''Sunshine'' becomes a pure genre flick, it never lapses into routine. Obscuring the central menace visually and maintaining a degree of ambiguity about whether the events of the final reels are even really happening, Boyle stages a denouement that plays like the film ''Event Horizon'' should have been."
 * Roger Ebert at Roger Ebertdotcom (3 Stars)  ([http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/sunshine-2007 link]) - "The drummed-up suspense at the end is not essential, since Boyle and Garland seem more interested in the metaphysics of the voyage... ...science-fiction fans will like it, and also brainiacs, and those who sometimes look at the sky and think, man, there's a lot going on up there, and we can't even define precisely what a soliton is."
-* Richard Scheib at the Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review (3/5 Stars) ([ link]) - "...Boyle and Garland do an impressive job at setting Sunshine up as a hard science-fiction film, the results end up disappointing. ... The most disappointing part of Sunshine is the direction the plot takes in the last third. Here Alex Garland veers off from a promising hard science plot into the tired and hackneyed. ...  The whole Pinbacker element – where...the inability on Alex Garland’s part to tell us what is going on during these sections is sloppy writing."
+* Richard Scheib at the Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review (3/5 Stars) ([http://moria.co.nz/sciencefiction/sunshine-2007.htm link]) - "...Boyle and Garland do an impressive job at setting Sunshine up as a hard science-fiction film, the results end up disappointing. ... The most disappointing part of Sunshine is the direction the plot takes in the last third. Here Alex Garland veers off from a promising hard science plot into the tired and hackneyed. ...  The whole Pinbacker element – where...the inability on Alex Garland’s part to tell us what is going on during these sections is sloppy writing."
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+* Robert Brodmerkel at The Horror Review ([http://www.horrorreview.com/sunshine/ link]) - "Early in the film one character jokingly refers to alien body count movies but, even when ''Sunshine'' becomes a pure genre flick, it never lapses into routine. Obscuring the central menace visually and maintaining a degree of ambiguity about whether the events of the final reels are even really happening, Boyle stages a denouement that plays like the film ''Event Horizon'' should have been."
+* Roger Ebert at Roger Ebertdotcom (3 Stars)  ([http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/sunshine-2007 link]) - "The drummed-up suspense at the end is not essential, since Boyle and Garland seem more interested in the metaphysics of the voyage... ...science-fiction fans will like it, and also brainiacs, and those who sometimes look at the sky and think, man, there's a lot going on up there, and we can't even define precisely what a soliton is."
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