Sunshine

Sunshine

Release Date

2007

Director

  • Danny Boyle

Cast

  • Cillian Murphy
  • Rose Byrne
  • Chris Evans

A team of international astronauts is sent on a dangerous mission to reignite the dying Sun with a nuclear fission bomb in 2057.

50 years in the future, the Sun begins to die, and Earth is dying as a result. Though the encroaching darkness at first seems unstoppable, scientists have devised one desperate final plan to buy the human race a temporary reprieve from the grim future that looms just past the horizon. A crew of eight men and women has been given a nuclear device designed to reignite the sun and are sent hurtling through the cosmos on the most crucial space mission ever attempted. Suddenly, as the crew loses radio contact with mission control, everything begins to fall apart. Now, in the farthest reaches of the galaxy, the men and women who may hold the key to ultimate survival find themselves struggling for their lives and their sanity.

Past Programs

2014

The Solar Probe Plus Project

Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, MI

2023

Solar flares

Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA