Ad Astra

About Ad Astra

The near future, a time when both hope and hardships drive humanity to look to the stars and beyond. While a mysterious phenomenon menaces to destroy life on planet Earth, astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across the immensity of space and its many perils to uncover the truth about a lost expedition that decades before boldly faced emptiness and silence in search of the unknown.

Ad Astra is a 2019 science fiction film directed by James Gray. Its themes are astronaut, moon, near future, and planet mars.

Brad Pitt takes the lead as Roy McBride, Tommy Lee Jones as H. Clifford McBride, Liv Tyler as Eve, and Ruth Negga as Helen Lantos. Released in September 2019, it runs 123 minutes.

The screenplay is by Ethan Gross and James Gray. It was produced by 20th Century Fox, Bona Film Group, and Keep Your Head Productions. American members can watch it on fuboTV, FXNow, and YouTube TV.

Armageddon, The Midnight Sky, and Crater make useful companions to Ad Astra, all filed under loss of loved one. TMDB voters put it at 6.1 out of 10 across 7,516 votes and it carries a PG-13 rating.