Interstellar
Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here.
A dying Earth sends a former pilot through a wormhole in search of a new home, while relativity turns every hour away from his daughter into years of her life.
Hard science fiction with a father-daughter tragedy at the centre. No other blockbuster makes an equation feel like grief.
- Director
- Christopher Nolan
- Signature
- Drama · Mind-Bending · Action
- Worldwide
- $747M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
The Nutevio profile
Movie DNA
How Interstellar actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve traits our editors track across every Nutevio title.
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Story overview
What It's About
Spoiler-free. Read the analysis below for the full argument.
A dying Earth sends a former pilot through a wormhole in search of a new home, while relativity turns every hour away from his daughter into years of her life.
Nutevio Editorial Analysis
Why Interstellar works
Interstellar is Nolan's most emotionally exposed film, and the one where his fascination with time finally has something to grieve. The premise is hard science fiction — a blighted Earth, a wormhole, relativity as an antagonist — but the structure is a domestic drama about a father who leaves and a daughter who has to grow old waiting.
The relativity sequence on Miller's planet is the clearest statement of intent in Nolan's career: an hour spent on the surface costs 23 years at home, and the film cashes that out not in exposition but in a stack of unwatched video messages. Matthew McConaughey plays the scene almost silently. It is the moment the physics becomes unbearable.
Hoyte van Hoytema's photography favours practical everything: real cornfields, real ice, miniature spacecraft, IMAX cameras mounted inside a full-size Ranger cockpit. Kip Thorne's equations shaped Gargantua's accretion disc, producing an image that later fed back into published astrophysics. Hans Zimmer's organ score — written before he knew the film was about space — treats the cosmos as a cathedral.
It divides audiences on its third act, and that argument is the point. Nolan chooses love as a physical parameter rather than a metaphor, which either lands as a leap of faith or a step too far. Either way, it is a blockbuster willing to end on a father who has become a ghost in his daughter's bedroom.
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Where to watch
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Why We Recommend It
Why It's Ranked
Interstellar appears in 9 Nutevio collections. Here is the argument behind each placement.
- Top 100 Mind-Bending Movies Ranked #1
Ranked #1 because no other film makes an abstract physical law feel like grief.
A dying Earth, a wormhole, and a clock that runs differently for everyone you love.
- Christopher Nolan Movies Ranked Ranked #1
Ranked #1 because the rare Nolan film where the feeling outruns the mechanism.
His most emotional film, and his most rigorous.
- Best Time Travel Movies Ranked #1
Ranked #1 because it uses real physics to break your heart.
Time dilation as the cruellest possible plot device.
- Adventure Movies Ranked #1
Ranked #1 because rated 9.4 by the Nutevio editors — one of the strongest adventure titles in the catalogue.
A dying Earth sends a former pilot through a wormhole in search of a new home, while relativity turns every hour away from his daughter into years of her life.
- Sci-Fi Movies Ranked #1
Ranked #1 because rated 9.4 by the Nutevio editors — one of the strongest sci-fi titles in the catalogue.
A dying Earth sends a former pilot through a wormhole in search of a new home, while relativity turns every hour away from his daughter into years of her life.
- Best Space Movies Ranked #2
Ranked #2 because the best modern argument for space as emotional territory.
A rescue mission with relativity as the villain.
- Best Movies of the 2010s Ranked #2
Ranked #2 because nobody else was making films this big and this strange.
Blockbuster ambition at its peak.
- Drama Movies Ranked #4
Ranked #4 because rated 9.4 by the Nutevio editors — one of the strongest drama titles in the catalogue.
A dying Earth sends a former pilot through a wormhole in search of a new home, while relativity turns every hour away from his daughter into years of her life.
- Top 250 Movies of All Time Ranked #7
Ranked #7 because emotional physics: the only blockbuster where an equation makes you cry.
Relativity turned into a father-daughter tragedy.
The record
Awards
2 wins · 5 nominations
A visual-effects landmark whose black hole was rendered from real physics.
Academy Awards
1 win · 5 nominations
- WinnerAcademy Award for Best Original Score
Saturn Awards
1 win
- WinnerSaturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film
The numbers
Box Office & Release
Interstellar returned 4.5× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $165M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $747M
- Release date
- Nov 7, 2014
- Runtime
- 2h 49m
- MPAA rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States of America
Figures from the verified production record. Fields we cannot source are left blank rather than estimated.
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How it was made
Behind The Scenes
Production facts, technique and the decisions that shaped what ended up on screen.
A real cornfield
The production planted 500 acres of corn in Alberta and sold the harvest afterwards to offset the cost.
Physics first
Kip Thorne's gravitational-lensing equations drove the render of Gargantua; the results were later published as scientific papers.
No green screen for space
Ranger and Endurance interiors were built practically and projected with 30-foot screens so the actors saw real starfields.
TARS was operated live
The monolithic robot was a physical puppet carried on set, with Bill Irwin performing the voice and the movement.
In their words
Iconic Quotes
“Do not go gentle into that good night.”
“Murph, I'm coming back.”
“We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars.”
“Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space.”
