George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Jeremy Davies, Ulrich Tuker, John Cho, Viola Davis
Director:
Steven Soderbergh
Writer:
Steven Soderbergh
Plot:
This remake of the 1972 adaptation (Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris) of Stanislaw Lem's novel takes place sometime in the future and is about psychologist and cosmonaut Dr. Kris Kelvin (George Clooney), who is sent to investigate a space station that has lost all communication with Earth. He discovers that the commander has committed suicide and the two remaining survivors are haunted by visions of their experiences on the planet Solaris, where Kelvin finds his dead wife (Natascha McElhone) alive. Steven Soderbergh has described his version as 2001: A Space Odyssey meets The Last Tango in Paris.
"… a mind-bender in the best sense of the word: The spell it casts follows you all the way home....." -- Rolling Stone ( Read Review )
"… isn't nearly as thought-provoking as Steven Spielberg's recent A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE or MINORITY REPORT, and nowhere as entertaining....." -- TV Guide ( Read Review )
