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The Astronaut’s Wife. Because sometimes, the surprise “spoiler” ending is the only reason you’d pay $11 to see what is otherwise a turkey of a film. Because sometimes, you vaguely remember an old movie that had some sort of plot twist at the end of it, but can’t remember what it was.
A space shuttle in orbit to repair a damaged satellite is forced to return to Earth after NASA loses contact with astronauts Spencer Armacost and Alex Streck for two minutes. Both were outside the spacecraft when the incident occurred.
Aug 27, 1999 · Spencer, an honored astronaut (Depp) and his beautiful school-teacher wife Jillian (Theron) face an inexplicable terror when Spencer loses total consciousness while on a routine space shuttle mission, returning home just barely alive and a bewildered, changed hero.
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- Rand Ravich
- R
- Charlize Theron
Meanwhile, Alex’s wife Natalie (Donna Murphy) tragically dies in a mysterious car accident shortly after their return. As Jillian delves deeper into Spencer’s behavior, she discovers alarming evidence suggesting that something otherworldly may have happened during the space mission.
Aug 27, 1999 · The Astronaut's Wife: Directed by Rand Ravich. With Johnny Depp, Charlize Theron, Joe Morton, Clea DuVall. After an explosion in space and subsequent two-minute radio-out period, two astronauts return home to their wives. Slightly it's revealed that they're not the same as they were.
- Rand Ravich
- 2 min
!!!UNFAIR RACIAL CLICHÉ ALERT!!!: Black actor Joe Morton is in this movie and so, like nearly every SF/Horror movie in the last twenty years, from perennial black movie victim Paul Winfield to the present; HE... For more, go to the UNFAIR RACIAL CLICHÉ ALERT - Though beware. The URCA has Spoilers.
Hope Spot: When the titular Astronaut's Wife tricks the alien into thinking she was going to commit suicide, she turns the tables and electrocutes her possessed husband. Unfortunately, the alien comes out of the husband's body and possesses her .
