2006   USA, UK Children of Men
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Director:Alfonso Cuarón
Studio:Universal Studios
Writer:Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton
IMDb Rating:7.9 (306,579 votes)
Awards:Nominated for 3 Oscars, Another 39 wins & 36 nominations
Genre:Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Duration:110 min
Languages:English
IMDb:0206634
Amazon:B000N6TX1I
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Alfonso Cuarón  ...  (Director)
Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton  ...  (Writer)
 
Clive Owen  ...  Theo Faron
Juan Gabriel Yacuzzi  ...  Baby Diego (as Juan Yacuzzi)
Michael Caine  ...  Jasper
Mishal Husain  ...  Newsreader
Rob Curling  ...  Newsreader
Chiwetel Ejiofor  ...  Luke
Jon Chevalier  ...  Café Customer
Julianne Moore  ...  Julian
Rita Davies  ...  Café Customer
Charlie Hunnam  ...  Patric
Kim Fenton  ...  Café Customer
Danny Huston  ...  Nigel
Chris Gilbert  ...  Café Customer
Phoebe Hawthorne  ...  Café Customer
Rebecca Howard  ...  Café Customer
John Tavener  ...  Composer
Emmanuel Lubezki  ...  Cinematographer
Alfonso Cuarón  ...  Editor
Alex Rodríguez  ...  Editor
Summary: Presenting a bleak, harrowing, and yet ultimately hopeful vision of humankind's not-too-distant future, Children of Men is a riveting cautionary tale of potential things to come. Set in the crisis-ravaged future of 2027, and based on the atypical 1993 novel by British mystery writer P.D. James, the anxiety-inducing, action-packed story is set in a dystopian England where humanity has become infertile (the last baby was born in 2009), immigration is a crime, refugees (or "fugees") are caged like animals, and the world has been torn apart by nuclear fallout, rampant terrorism, and political rebellion. In this seemingly hopeless landscape of hardscrabble survival, a jaded bureaucrat named Theo (Clive Owen) is drawn into a desperate struggle to deliver Kee (Clare-Hope Ashitey), the world's only pregnant woman, to a secret group called the Human Project that hopes to discover a cure for global infertility. As they carefully navigate between the battling forces of military police and a pro-immigration insurgency, Theo, Kee, and their secretive allies endure a death-defying ordeal of urban warfare, and director Alfonso Cuaron (with cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki) capture the action with you-are-there intensity. There's just enough humor to balance the film's darker content (much of it coming from Michael Caine, as Theo's aging hippie cohort), and although Children of Men glosses over many of the specifics about its sociopolitical worst-case scenario (which includes Julianne Moore in a brief but pivotal role), it's still an immensely satisfying, pulse-pounding vision of a future that represents a frightening extrapolation of early 21st-century history. --Jeff Shannon


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