Cloud Atlas
Everything is connected.
A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future.Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future.
- Director
- Lilly Wachowski
- Worldwide
- $130M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
28 billed performers
Story overview
What It's About
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A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Cloud Atlas returned 1.3× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $102M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $130M
- Release date
- Oct 26, 2012
- Runtime
- 2h 52m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- China, Germany
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