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The Discovery is a 2017 English-language science fiction romance film directed by Charlie McDowell, who also wrote the screenplay. The production involves Protagonist Pictures and Endgame Entertainment, with distribution handled by Netflix via video on demand. The cast includes Rooney Mara, Jason Segel, Robert Redford, and Riley Keough. Sturla Brandth Grøvlen served as the director of photography.
The film has a runtime of 102 minutes and was released on March 31, 2017. It originated in the United States and the United Kingdom. Keywords associated with the work include suicide, alternative reality, life after death, detached, and ambiguous. The movie was assessed under the Bechdel test.
Critical reception data includes a review score of 46%, a 5.6 out of 10 rating, and a 54 out of 100 score. Additional metrics list a vote average of 6.26 and an IMDb rating of 6.2. The production budget was 5,000,000.
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6.3In the near future, due to a breakthrough scientific discovery by Dr. Thomas Harbor, there is now definitive proof of an afterlife. While countless people have chosen suicide to reset their existence, others try to decide what it all means. Among them is Dr. Harbor's son Will, who has arrived at his father's isolated compound with a mysterious young woman named Isla. There, they discover the strange acolytes who help Dr. Harbor with his experiments.
Cast
- Jason Segel as Will Harbor
- Rooney Mara as Isla
- Robert Redford as Dr. Thomas Harbor
- Jesse Plemons as Toby Harbor
- Riley Keough as Lacey
- Ron Canada as Cooper
Themes
- suicide
- alternative reality
- life after death
- detached
- ambiguous
- bewildered
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- romance film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Charlie McDowell
- Screenwriter
- Charlie McDowell
- Cast member
- Ron Canada
- Production company
- Netflix
- Cinematographer
- Sturla Brandth Grøvlen
- Duration
- 110
- FilmAffinity ID
- 620000
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 2017-00-00
- title
- The Discovery
- distributed by
- Netflix
- Commons category
- The Discovery
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 54/100
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