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The Island is a american film of genre Science fiction directed by Michael Bay released in USA on 22 july 2005 with Ewan McGregor
The Island (2005)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 22 july 2005
Length 2h16
Directed by Michael Bay
OriginUSA
Themes Clonage, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about sexuality, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Films about virginity
Rating67%
The Island is a 2005 American science fiction action thriller film Drama Film directed by Michael Bay, starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson. It was released on July 22, 2005, in the United States and was nominated for three awards, including the Teen Choice Award.
It is 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 film's plot revolves around the struggle of Ewan McGregor's character to fit into the highly structured world he lives in, isolated in a compound, and the series of events that unfold when he questions how truthful that world really is. After he learns that the compound inhabitants are clones who are used for organ harvesting and surrogate motherhood for wealthy people in the outside world, he escapes.
The film cost $126 million to produce. It earned only $36 million at the United States box office, but earned $127 million overseas, for a $162 million worldwide total. The original score for the film was composed by Steve Jablonsky, who would go on to score Bay's further works. It was also the first film directed by Bay that was not produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.
Synopsis
In the year 2019, Lincoln Six Echo and Jordan Two Delta live with others in an isolated compound. Their community is governed by a set of strict rules. The residents believe that the outer world has become too contaminated for human life with the exception of one contagion-free island. Every week a lottery is conducted and the winner gets to leave the compound to live on the island.Actors
Ewan McGregor
(Lincoln Six Echo / Tom Lincoln)
Scarlett Johansson
(Jordan Two Delta / Sarah Jordan)
Djimon Hounsou
(Albert Laurent)
Sean Bean
(Dr. Bernard Merrick)
Steve Buscemi
(James 'Mac' McCord)
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