DVD 113 mins IMDB 4.9

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#281

Drama, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller, Action

Gary Sinise	Jim McConnell
Tim Robbins	Woodrow Blake
Don Cheadle	Luke Graham
Kim Delaney	Maggie McConnell
Elise Neal	Debra Graham
Connie Nielsen	Terri Fisher
Jerry O'Connell	Phil Ohlmyer
Peter Outerbridge	Sergei Kirov
Kavan Smith	Nicholas Willis
Marilyn Norry	Louise
Jill Teed	Reneé Coté
Armin Mueller-Stahl

Director	Brian De Palma
Producer	Tom Jacobson; David S. Goyer; Justis Greene
Writer	Lowell Cannon; Jim Thomas; John Thomas; Graham Yost

Jim McConnell (Gary Sinise) was scheduled to lead the first manned mission to Mars with his wife Maggie (Kim Delaney). Her untimely death from cancer leaves him in a whirl of depression and seemingly too unstable to proceed. Command is given instead to his buddy Luke Graham (Don Cheadle). Ten months into the mission when Luke and his crew discover a mysterious structure on the Martian surface a sudden tornado kills all but Luke. Jim, scientist Phil Ohlmyer (Jerry O'Connell) and married astronauts Woody Blake (Tim Robbins) and Terri Fisher (Connie Nielsen) are up on the space station monitoring the mission. They persuade NASA to send them to respond to Luke’s last garbled transmission. The challenges of the rescue mission are many but eventually they succeed in finding Luke still alive and all too informed about the workings of the structure. The intrepid space travelers must then choose whether they wish to discover the secrets of the alien construct or to flee back to Earth.