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Oblivion is a 2013 American science fiction film directed by Joseph Kosinski, who also co-wrote the screenplay with William Monahan and Michael Arndt. The cast includes Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, and Andrea Riseborough. Produced by Universal Pictures and Relativity Media, the film was shot in Iceland and California, with New York City serving as a narrative location. It features themes of cloning and alien invasion, and was distributed by Universal Pictures and Netflix.
The film has a runtime of 124 minutes and is rated PG-13. It received a Metascore of 54 and a Rotten Tomatoes score of 53%. On IMDb, it holds a rating of 7.0 based on 587,098 votes. The production had a budget of $120,000,000 and earned $286,168,572 at the box office.
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6.7Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly complete. His existence is brought crashing down when he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. Her arrival triggers a chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows and puts the fate of humanity in his hands.
Cast
- Tom Cruise as Jack
- Morgan Freeman as Beech
- Olga Kurylenko as Julia
- Andrea Riseborough as Victoria
- Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Sykes
- Melissa Leo as Sally
Themes
- spacecraft
- dystopia
- post-apocalyptic future
- based on comic
- space
- drone
- surveillance
- human vs alien
- 2070s
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Ratings
IMDb
7/10
583,313 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
53%
Metacritic
54/100
- Year
- 2013
- Runtime
- 124 min
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- 1 win & 17 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Joseph Kosinski
- Screenplay by
- Karl Gajdusek Michael deBruyn
- Based on
- Oblivion , by Joseph Kosinski
- Produced by
- Peter Chernin Dylan Clark Duncan Henderson Joseph Kosinski Barry Levine
- Starring
- Tom Cruise Morgan Freeman Olga Kurylenko Andrea Riseborough Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Melissa Leo
- Cinematography
- Claudio Miranda
- Edited by
- Richard Francis-Bruce
- Music by
- M83 (original music) Anthony Gonzalez, (music composed) Joseph Trapanese , (music composed)
- Production companies
- Universal Pictures Relativity Media Chernin Entertainment Monolith Pictures Radical Studios
- Distributed by
- Universal Pictures
- Release dates
- March 26, 2013 ( 2013-03-26 ) ( Buenos Aires ) April 19, 2013 ( 2013-04-19 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 124 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $120 million
- Box office
- $287.9 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Oblivion is a 2013 American epic post-apocalyptic science fiction action film produced and directed by Joseph Kosinski from a screenplay by Karl Gajdusek and Michael deBruyn, starring Tom Cruise in the main role alongside Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, and Melissa Leo in supporting roles. Based on Kosinski's unpublished Radical Comics graphic novel of the same name, the film pays homage to 1970s sci-fi, and is a "love story" set in 2077 on an Earth desolated by an alien war; a maintenance technician on the verge of completing his mission finds a woman who survived from a space ship crash, leading him to question his purpose and discover the truth about the war.
Oblivion premiered in Buenos Aires on March 26, 2013, and was released in theaters by Universal Pictures on April 19. The film grossed $286 million worldwide on a production budget of $120 million and received mixed reviews from critics.
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