The Fountain
What if you could live forever?
Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.
- Director
- Darren Aronofsky
- Worldwide
- $15M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
Story overview
What It's About
Spoiler-free. Read the analysis below for the full argument.
Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.
Where to watch
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Why We Recommend It
Why It's Ranked
The Fountain appears in 1 Nutevio collection. Here is the argument behind each placement.
Ranked #10 because the Fountain is the least obvious Interstellar recommendation on this list—and one of the reasons we wanted it here.
Across three intertwined stories, a man struggles with the same impossible desire: finding a way to defeat death and avoid losing the person he loves.
Darren Aronofsky moves between a conquistador searching for the Tree of Life, a modern scientist desperately pursuing a cure, and a mysterious traveler moving through space. The connections aren't handed to you neatly, and that's intentional.
The numbers
Box Office & Release
The Fountain returned 0.4× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $35M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $15M
- Release date
- Nov 22, 2006
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- MPAA rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
Figures from the verified production record. Fields we cannot source are left blank rather than estimated.
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