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Movie Facts

Status: Released

Runtime: 91

Budget: $90,000,000

Revenue: $14,800,000

Language: en

Webpage: -

Release Info

  • 2000-01-14
     R

  • 2000-06-16
     15

  • 2000-08-11
     -

  • 2001-02-01
     16

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Alternative Titles

  • Supernova: El fin del universo
  • סופרנובה
  • Supernova (El fin del universo)
Content Score: 100

(2000)

4.7/10 (28 votes)

Overview

Set in the 22nd century, when a battered salvage ship sends out a distress signal, the seasoned crew of the rescue hospital ship Nova-17 responds. What they find is a black hole--that threatens to destroy both ships--and a mysterious survivor whose body quickly mutates into a monstrous and deadly form.

Tagline

In the farthest reaches of space, something has gone terribly wrong.

Crew

Directors: Walter Hill, Jack Sholder, Francis Ford Coppola
Writer:

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Cast

James Spader

James Spader
as Nick Vanzant

Angela Bassett

Angela Bassett
as Dr. Kaela Evers

Robert Forster

Robert Forster
as A.J. Marley

Lou Diamond Phillips

Lou Diamond Phillips
as Yerzy Penalosa

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A review by John Chard

Heal thyself, doctor.

The back story to Supernova is actually more interesting than the studio cut of the film that is available to view. Director's coming and going, one (Walter Hill) taking his name off the credits, butchery by studio interference, different endings, different planned thematics, shelved for two years and etc. Supernova was a messy production and sadly it shows, making Walter Hill's original cut (unavailable) the Magnificent Ambersons of the sci-fi genre.

Plot, in the skew-whiff edited version we are fed here, is basically a riff on Ridley Scott's Alien. Space dudes up i... read the rest.