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15% Tomatometer 60 Reviews 33% Audience Score 50,000+ Ratings When astronaut Spencer Armacost (Johnny Depp) returns to Earth after a mission that nearly cost him his life, he decides to take a desk job in order to see his beautiful wife, Jillian (Charlize Theron), more often. Gradually, Jillian notices that Spencer's personality seems to have changed, but her concerns fade when she discovers that she's pregnant. As Jillian grows closer to becoming a mother, her suspicions about Spencer return. Why does it seem as if he's a different person? Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Buy Now

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Despite the best efforts of its talented leads, The Astronaut's Wife moves at a snail's pace and fails to generate enough intrigue to keep viewers engaged.

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The Astronaut's Wife | Rotten Tomatoes (1) Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly Rated: C+ Sep 7, 2011 Full Review The Astronaut's Wife | Rotten Tomatoes (2) Globe and Mail Rated: 2.5/4 Mar 22, 2002 Full Review The Astronaut's Wife | Rotten Tomatoes (3) Janet Maslin New York Times The Astronaut's Wife is ridiculously derivative. Rated: 2.5/5 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review The Astronaut's Wife | Rotten Tomatoes (4) Chuck Klosterman Akron Beacon Journal A strikingly unremarkable picture that starts with an unoriginal idea and ends with a cheap conclusion designed to prompt a sequel (although it's unlikely this movie will be successful enough to warrant one). Rated: 2/4 Oct 26, 2023 Full Review The Astronaut's Wife | Rotten Tomatoes (5) Mary K Feeney Hartford Courant "The Astronaut's Wife,'' heavy on melodrama and skimpy on substance, is light years too long to engage audiences. And Depp, a talented actor with some great films to his credit, seems lost in space in this unfortunate vehicle. Jan 2, 2018 Full Review The Astronaut's Wife | Rotten Tomatoes (6) Rob Gonsalves Rob's Movie Vault A high-toned grind. Rated: F Jul 23, 2007 Full Review Read all reviews

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Sean M This movie was sooo bad. A stinker for sure. Rated 1/5 Stars • Rated 1 out of 5 stars 04/10/23 Full Review Butch B great actors on a poor script. Started slow and stayed that way. A log of terrible dialogue. Ended up watching about half of the movie and then jumping to the end. Glad I didn't pay to go see this movie. Rated 1.5/5 Stars • Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 03/09/23 Full Review Cat F Brilliant chemistry by depp and Theron. Suspenseful film Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/18/22 Full Review Audience Member Despite the strong performances from Depp and Theron, this movie wields a pretty predictable plot. Like the sort of thing you can guess immediately, say ten minutes or so into the movie. Aswell as that, the dialogue is at points on the forced/cringy side and certain aspects of the story just don't make logical sense (or you make your own logic to make it make sense... either way it's bad)But with the decent acting (mostly) and the few scenes of shock or build up that actually work I deem this film 'watchable'... It'll probably just be easier if you've had one of those days at work where you're brain has turned to complete mush. Rated 2/5 Stars • Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review adam b I enjoyed the premise for the most part (a 4th dimensional being(?) taking over the body of an astronaut and then using the wife as a way to reproduce) but this film explored really nothing about the whole "the twins will be pilots" even though they are mentioned a ton and is basically the entire agenda for the alien. I mean, pilots for what exactly? Why did you need kids as pilots? And the film didn't explore the alien aspect very much, mostly just examines the wife losing her mind figuring out her "husband" isn't actually her husband anymore. Plus, some of this dialogue is so bad and some characters are literally so annoying. Other than that, I was entertained and enjoyed Depp's and Theron's performance a bunch Rated 3/5 Stars • Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review felipe d It was a really, really, really slow movie. I got myself sleeping sometimes. Rated 1.5/5 Stars • Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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Rand Ravich Director Johnny Depp Commander Spencer Armacost Charlize Theron Jillian Armacost Joe Morton Sherman Reese Clea Duvall Nan Donna Murphy Natalie Streck
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Synopsis When astronaut Spencer Armacost (Johnny Depp) returns to Earth after a mission that nearly cost him his life, he decides to take a desk job in order to see his beautiful wife, Jillian (Charlize Theron), more often. Gradually, Jillian notices that Spencer's personality seems to have changed, but her concerns fade when she discovers that she's pregnant. As Jillian grows closer to becoming a mother, her suspicions about Spencer return. Why does it seem as if he's a different person?

Director
Rand Ravich

Producer
Andrew Lazar

Screenwriter
Rand Ravich

Distributor
New Line Home Video [us], New Line Cinema

Production Co
New Line Cinema, Mad Chance

Rating
R

Genre
Sci-Fi, Drama, Mystery & Thriller

Original Language
English

Release Date (Theaters)
Aug 27, 1999, Original

Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 1, 2011

Box Office (Gross USA)
$10.7M

Runtime
1h 49m

Sound Mix
Surround
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