Moon (2009 film)

Moon
Moon
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Duncan Jones
Written by	Nathan Parker
Story by	Duncan Jones
Produced by	Stuart Fenegan; Trudie Styler;
Starring	Sam Rockwell; Kevin Spacey; Dominique McElligott; Kaya Scodelario; Benedict Wong; Matt Berry; Malcolm Stewart;
Cinematography	Gary Shaw
Edited by	Nicholas Gastor
Music by	Clint Mansell
Production; companies	Stage 6 Films; Liberty Films; Xingu Films; Limelight;
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Releasing International; (United Kingdom); Sony Pictures Classics; (International);
Release dates	23 January 2009 (Sundance); 12 June 2009 (United States); 17 July 2009 (United Kingdom);
Running time	97 minutes
Countries	United Kingdom; United States;
Language	English
Budget	$5 million
Box office	$9.8 million

Moon is a 2009 science fiction film directed by Duncan Jones (in his directorial debut) and written by Nathan Parker from a story by Jones. The film follows Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell), a man who experiences a personal crisis as he nears the end of a three-year solitary stint mining helium-3 on the far side of the Moon. Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElligott, Kaya Scodelario, Benedict Wong, Matt Berry, and Malcolm Stewart also star. It premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and was released in selected cinemas in New York and Los Angeles on 12 June 2009. The release was expanded to additional theatres in the United States on 10 July and to the United Kingdom on 17 July. A follow-up film containing an epilogue to the film's events, Mute, was released in 2018. A third installment, a graphic novel called Madi: Once Upon A Time in the Future, was released in 2020.

Moon was modestly budgeted and grossed just under $10 million worldwide,^[4] but was well received by critics. Rockwell's performance found praise. The movie won numerous film critic and film festival awards and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Film, and won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in 2010.

^ "Moon (2009)". British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
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[1] "Moon (2009)". British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved 18 March 2019.

[AFI-2] "MOON". American Film Institute.

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