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Children of Men (2006)

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Overview

Director:
Alfonso Cuarón
Writers (WGA):
Alfonso Cuarón (screenplay) &
Timothy J. Sexton (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
5 January 2007 (USA) more view trailer
Tagline:
No children. No future. No hope. more
Plot:
In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 17 wins & 24 nominations more
User Comments:
A thinking person's thriller more

Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)

Juan Gabriel Yacuzzi ... Baby Diego (as Juan Yacuzzi)
Mishal Husain ... Newsreader
Rob Curling ... Newsreader
Jon Chevalier ... Café Customer
Rita Davies ... Café Customer
Kim Fenton ... Café Customer
Chris Gilbert ... Café Customer
Phoebe Hawthorne ... Café Customer
Rebecca Howard ... Café Customer
Atalanta White ... Café Customer (as Atlanta White)
Laurence Woodbridge ... Café Customer

Clive Owen ... Theo Faron
Maria McErlane ... Shirley
Michael Haughey ... Mr. Griffiths

Paul Sharma ... Ian
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for strong violence, language, some drug use and brief nudity.
Runtime:
109 min
Country:
Japan | UK | USA
Colour:
Colour
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
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SDDS | DTS | Dolby Digital
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Trivia:
After seeing Charlie Hunnam's performance in Cold Mountain (2003), Alfonso Cuarón called him up and offered him the role of Patric. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Theo discovers that Kee is pregnant, she covers her breast with her left arm. In the next shot she appears to be covering her breast with the right arm. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Newsreader: Day 1,000 of the Siege of Seattle.
Newsreader: The Muslim community demands an end to the Army's occupation of mosques.
Newsreader: The Homeland Security bill is ratified. After eight years, British borders will remain closed. The deportation of illegal immigrants will continue. Good morning. Our lead story.
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Movie Connections:
References Twelve Monkeys (1995) more
Soundtrack:
Total State Machine more

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How much of the film is based on the original novel?
What is the name of the techno song Jasper plays with a lot of screaming?
Why does the blood on the camera disappear?
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242 out of 365 people found the following comment useful:-
A thinking person's thriller, 6 November 2006
9/10
Author: Philby-3 from Sydney, Australia

Alfonso Cuaron has given us a very clever rendering of a very English dystopian novel. P D James, the "Baroness of Bad" is famous for her well-written and absorbing police procedural novels ("Inspector Dalgliesh") but in the early 90s she produced a vision of a world only 20 years into the future in which for unspecified reasons all the women on earth have become unfertile and no babies have been born for the last 18 years.

The rest of the world has lapsed into chaos but the British, stoically, have put the remainder of their civil liberties into the fire and have settled down under an oppressive dictatorship to ward off foreign boarders and await inevitable extinction, though there are some violent dissidents called the fish.

Theo (Clive Owen), a journalist with connections to the top, is "persuaded" by his ex-wife and fish member Julian (Julianne Moore) to obtain some exit papers for Kee (Claire Hope Ashity) a young black woman, who, it turns out, is pregnant. Theo is swept up in Kee's escape across a grim decaying landscape. Not only are there the security forces to contend with, but some equally ruthless insurgents. Cuaron builds the tension exquisitely, interspersing the adrenaline fueled bits with quieter bits.

Kee' projected saviors are a mysterious group called the Human Project who conveniently sail their well-maintained Greenpeace style ex-North Sea fishing trawler past offshore light buoys in the hope of rescuing the human race. But the improbability of this doesn't matter much because by the end of the movie Cuaron has effectively demonstrated what the world would be like if humankind suddenly stopped reproducing. Having children is our way of cheating death, without them there is nothing but death, and in this future there are none about but the living dead.

The casting is pretty well perfect. Clive Owen as Theo puts his haunted good looks to good use as he turns from cynical reporter to a hunted enemy of the state. The motley characters he meets along the way – his ex-wife, the fish rebels, the refugees who help him, the "fascist pig" border guard and above all Michael Caine's aging hippie are all wonderfully realized.

It has been suggested that Cuaron has really made a film about today, not 20 years into the future. The rampaging security forces we see might as well be in Bosnia or Iraq, or even Northern Ireland. In an age of terrorism, order without law very quickly becomes tyranny, which has never been the answer to terrorism. What he and PD James do demonstrate is just how fragile our civil society is.

As a film this is a very fine piece of work. The sets exude grimy Britain, the battles are hair-raising, the quieter moments intense. Cuaron would do a great James Bond movie. He has turned a rather rarefied novel into an exiting and engrossing thriller without obscuring the original message. He is a very versatile and enterprising film-maker and I'm sure he's going to do lots more good stuff.

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