

Sunshine
If it dies, so do we.
Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind’s last hope.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $50M
- Box office
- $34.8M
- Language
- English
- space marine
- saving the world
- bomb
- sun
- space suit
- sunlight
- space travel
- space mission
- earth
- solar energy
- expiration
- introspective
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Release dates
IndiaIN
- Theatrical18 May 2007
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR20 Jul 2007
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical155 Apr 2007
- Physical15DVD27 Aug 2007
- Physical15Blu-ray29 Oct 2007
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM12 Apr 2007
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical19 Apr 2007
AustriaAT
- Theatrical20 Apr 2007
BelgiumBE
- Premiere18Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Films5 Apr 2007
- Theatrical1811 Apr 2007
BoliviaBO
- Theatrical12 Apr 2007
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1413 Apr 2007
BulgariaBG
- Theatrical27 Apr 2007
ChileCL
- Theatrical26 Apr 2007
CroatiaHR
- Theatrical12 Apr 2007
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Sunshine was released on 5 April 2007.
Audience reviews
5- J9/10
John Chard
5/30/2019
Are you an angel? Has the time come? I've been waiting so long. We are in the not too distant future and the Sun is fading out. After a first mission to reignite it with a nuclear bomb fails, with the ship apparently lost in space, a new team are sent to try again. But it really isn't as simple as that... Director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland team up once again for this sci-fi adventure thriller. For a…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
3/26/2022
Danny Boyle has assembled a stellar (had to be said) cast for this rather far-fetched story. The crew of the "Icarus II" are charged with dragging a massive nuclear bomb towards the sun with a view to giving it a bit of a pick-me-up. It's dying, you see. Needless to say their journey is fraught with danger, made worse when they discover the wreckage of a previous ship sent on a similar mission many years earlier. Whe…
- W6/10
whitsbrain
1/30/2024
This sci-fi thriller started so strong. It began as a hard science fiction film with a spaceship basically pushing a nuclear bomb the size of Manhattan towards the Sun. The ship and crew's task is to reignite the dying Sun. The look and feel of the first half of the movie are wonderful. One of the best parts occurs early as the crew gets to witness the tiny planet Mercury passing between them and the Sun. The science…
- R8/10
Rolpbert
2/22/2024
In this movie, madness jeopardizes a mission essential to humanity's survival. It shows how faulty logic hardwired into our brains can make our lives less effective and meaningful. The movie gets a bit messy at the end and does a bit of cinematic mysticism which does not fit together with the rational message of the movie. Overall, this is one of my favorite movies because not a lot of movies try to send this p…
- D7/10
Dr Nostromo
5/22/2026
67/100 The sun is dying and the Icarus II is sent with a massive bomb to kick it back on 7 years after an apparent failure of Icarus I to do the same. This sounds like one of those totally implausible scenarios used to create a spec fx heavy adventure without any real science to back it up. But this film took great care to make it scientifically plausible and the human drama was as fantastic as the story. This is …
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