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6.7In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly the last uncontaminated location on the planet. But Lincoln soon discovers that everything about his existence is a lie.
Cast
- Ewan McGregor as Lincoln Six Echo / Tom Lincoln
- Scarlett Johansson as Jordan Two Delta / Sarah Jordan
- Djimon Hounsou as Albert Laurent
- Sean Bean as Dr. Bernard Merrick
- Steve Buscemi as James 'Mac' McCord
- Michael Clarke Duncan as Starkweather Two Delta / Jamal Starkweather
Themes
- genetics
- love of one's life
- escape
- freedom
- dystopia
- transhumanism
- false memory
- plague
- human clone
- 2010s
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Ratings
IMDb
6.8/10
340,935 votes
Metacritic
50/100
- Year
- 2005
- Runtime
- 136 min
- Genres
- Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- 1 win & 6 nominations total
via OMDb · IMDb
Key facts
- Directed by
- Michael Bay
- Screenplay by
- Caspian Tredwell-Owen Alex Kurtzman Roberto Orci
- Story by
- Caspian Tredwell-Owen
- Produced by
- Walter F. Parkes Michael Bay Ian Bryce
- Starring
- Ewan McGregor Scarlett Johansson Djimon Hounsou Sean Bean Michael Clarke Duncan Steve Buscemi
- Cinematography
- Mauro Fiore
- Edited by
- Paul Rubell Christian Wagner Roger Barton John Murray Tom Muldoon Nina Lucia Todd Douglas Miller
- Music by
- Steve Jablonsky
- Production companies
- DreamWorks Pictures , Parkes / MacDonald Productions
- Distributed by
- DreamWorks Distribution LLC (North America), Warner Bros. Pictures (International)
- Release date
- July 22, 2005 ( 2005-07-22 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 136 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $126 million
- Box office
- $162.9 million
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- biopunk
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- cloning
- Director
- Michael Bay
- Screenwriter
- Roberto Orci
- Composer
- Steve Jablonsky
- Producer
- Michael Bay
- Production company
- DreamWorks
- Cinematographer
- Mauro Fiore
- Narrative location
- Arizona
- Filming location
- Long Beach
- Duration
- 130
- FilmAffinity ID
- 803116
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- amblin.com/movie/the-island
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- publication date
- 2005-08-04
- film editor
- Christian Wagner
- title
- The Island
- distributed by
- Warner Bros. Entertainment
- Commons category
- The Island (2005 film)
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 50/100
- capital cost
- 127000000
- box office
- 162949164
- costume designer
- Deborah Lynn Scott
Sources (15)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Island is a 2005 American science fiction action film directed and co-produced by Michael Bay and written by Caspian Tredwell-Owen, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, from a story by Tredwell-Owen. It stars Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou, Sean Bean, Michael Clarke Duncan, and Steve Buscemi. The film is about two human clones, Lincoln Six Echo (McGregor) and Jordan Two Delta (Johansson), who live in a utopian compound isolated from the outside world. After Lincoln learns that the compound inhabitants are clones used for organ harvesting as well as surrogacy for wealthy people, the two escape with the goal of exposing the illegal cloning movement.
The Island has been described as a pastiche of "escape-from-dystopia" science fiction films of the 1960s and 1970s, such as Fahrenheit 451, THX 1138, Parts: The Clonus Horror, and Logan's Run. The Island cost $126 million to produce. It opened on July 22, 2005, by DreamWorks Pictures in North America and internationally by Warner Bros. Pictures, to mixed reviews, earning $36 million at the United States box office and $127 million overseas for a $162 million worldwide total.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Island” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.