Passengers (2016)
Set on a colony ship carrying hibernating human passengers to a distant alien world, Passengers stars Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt as Aurora and Jim, two passengers on the ship who are awakened from their induced sleep almost a century too early. As the two begin to come to terms with their isolation and start to form a bond, Aurora begins to suspect that Jim is not as innocent in the accident as he claims to be.
Passengers
- Director
- Morten Tyldum
- Release Date
- December 21, 2016
- Studio(s)
- Sony
- Distributor(s)
- Sony
- Cast
- Laurence Fishburne , Aurora Perrineau , Chris Pratt2 , Jamie Soricelli , Jennifer Lawrence , Kimberly Battista , Andy Garcia , Michael Sheen
- Writers
- Jon Spaihts
- Runtime
- 116minuntes
- Budget
- $110 million
Summary
A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.
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