Avatar
USA
action - adventure - sci-fi

Runtime: 161 minutes
Production Year: 2009

Director: James Cameron

Starring:

Sam Worthington (Jake Sully)
Sigourney Weaver (Dr. Grace Augustine)

˝Avatar,˝ a live action film with a new generation of special effects, takes us to a spectacular world beyond imagination, where a reluctant hero embarks on a journey of redemption and discovery as he leads an epic battle to save a civilization. James Cameron, the Oscar-winning director of ˝Titanic,˝ first conceived the film years ago, when the means to realize his vision did not yet exist. Now, after four years of actual production work, ˝Avatar˝ delivers a fully immersive cinematic experience of a new kind, where the revolutionary technology invented to make the film disappears into the emotion of the characters and the sweep of the story.

The story´s hero is Jake Sully, a former Marine confined to a wheelchair. Bitter and disillusioned, he´s still a warrior at heart. All Jake ever wanted was something worth fighting for, and he finds it in the place he least expected: on a distant world. Jake has been recruited to join an expedition to the moon Pandora, which corporate interests are strip-mining for a mineral worth $20 million per kilogram on Earth. To facilitate their work, the humans use a link system that projects a person´s consciousness into a hybrid of humans and Pandora´s indigenous humanoids, the Na´vi. This human-Na´vi hybrid – a fully living, breathing body that resembles the Na´vi but possesses the individual human´s thoughts, feelings and personality – is known as an ˝avatar.˝

In his new avatar form, Jake can once again walk. His mission is to interact with and infiltrate the Na´vi with the hope of enlisting their help – or at least their acquiescence – in mining the ore. A beautiful Na´vi female, Neytiri, saves Jake´s life, albeit reluctantly, because even in his avatar body, Jake represents to her the human encroachment on the Na´vi´s unspoiled world.

As Jake´s relationship with Neytiri deepens, along with his respect for the Na´vi, he faces the ultimate test as he leads an epic conflict that will decide nothing less than the fate of an entire world.

Cast: Michelle Rodriguez (Trudy Chacon), Zoe Saldana (Neytiri), Giovanni Ribisi (Selfridge), Dileep Rao (Dr. Max Patel), Joel Moore (Norm Spellman), Stephen Lang (Col. Quaritch), Laz Alonso (Tsu´Tey), CCH Pounder (Moha), Peter Mensah (Akwey), Matt Gerald (Lyle Wainfleet), more...

Crew: Writer: James Cameron, Producer: James Cameron, Producer: Jon Landau, Music: James Horner, Director of photography: Mauro Fiore, Editor: John Refoua, Editor: Stephen Rivkin, Production designer: Rick Carter, Production designer: Robert Stromberg, Costume designer: Mayes C. Rubeo, more...

Release Date: December 18, 2009  (USA)