Solaris

Starring: Clooney, George and McElhone, Natascha

Product Description

A space station orbiting the planet Solaris has played victim to deadly and unexplainable events. Scientists believe the planet could be playing "mind games" with the observers and send in a widowed psychologist (Clooney) to check things out. Research gets puts aside as he gets a second chance with his deceased wife.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 024543079835
• Release Date: July 2003
• Rating: PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
• Publisher: Twentieth Century-Fox
• Director: Soderbergh, Steven
• Starring: Clooney, George, McElhone, Natascha
• Runtime: 1 hour, 35 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: Multiple Formats; Anamorphic; Closed-captioned; Color; Dolby; Dubbed; NTSC; Subtitled; Widescreen
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 7.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Cerebral Science Fiction on a Par with 2001: A Space Odyssey

This film is based on a Russian movie of the same name taken from a novel of the same name by Polish author, Stanislaw Lem. It concerns a crew aboard a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris. There is an intelligent entity on the planet that is able to read the minds of the crew members and create apparitions from their subconsciouses. Science fiction movies are divided between space opera/horror films like Alien, Star Wars and Star Trek and cerebral movies designed to make you think and question things like 2001: A Space Odyssey and this one, Solaris. No monsters, laser blasters or dark-suited villains here. Just adults in crisis struggling with their perceptions of reality in the grip of an alien intelligence manipulating their feelings and memories. It is slow and deliberate, better than the original and forces you to talk about its meaning after the show. Clooney brings the pathos playing the role of a psychologist sent to help the crew out. But he is still grieving from the recent loss of his wife. The movie is not for everyone. But if you want an intelligent, thought-provoking evening, Solaris will satisfy.