Rating: PG13
Genre:
Science Fiction
Theatrical Release: 11/27/2002(USA)
Release Date: 07/29/2003
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol
Sound: DD5.1/DDS
Run Time: 99 Minutes
Flags: Mild Violence, Brief Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox
A therapist travels to a distant space station to treat a group of astronauts traumatized by mysterious entities -- and ends up having to deal with an entity of his own -- in this second film version of
Stanislaw Lem's philosophical sci-fi novel.
Solaris stars
George Clooney as
Chris Kelvin, a psychologist still mourning the loss of his wife
Rheya (
Natascha McElhone) when he's implored by a colleague named
Gibarian (
Ulrich Tukur) to investigate the increasingly weird goings-on at the Prometheus space station. By the time
Kelvin gets there,
Gibarian has committed suicide, leaving only the cryptic, babbling
Snow (
Jeremy Davies) and the paranoid, guarded
Gordon (
Viola Davis), both of whom are holed up in their respective rooms. As
Kelvin interrogates the skeleton crew, he learns that they've had unwanted "visitors," apparitions of long-dead friends, family, and loved ones who are apparently being generated by the interstellar energy source Solaris. The doctor is dubious of their claims until one night he, too, is greeted by his wife
Rheya (
Natascha McElhone), whose death still torments him. At first skeptical of the new
Rheya,
Kelvin gradually becomes obsessed with her -- and with the guilt that he feels over their troubled marriage -- to the point where the others begin to fear for his sanity. Produced by
James Cameron,
Solaris represented director
Steven Soderbergh's first screenplay credit since the independently financed
Schizopolis in 1996.
~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide
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