James Spader, Peter Facinelli, Robin Tunney

Supernova chronicles the search and rescue patrol of a medical ship in deep space in the early 22nd century and its six-member crew which includes a Captain and Pilot (Robert Forster),a co-pilot (Jame...( read more  read more... )s Spader), a medical officer (Angela Bassett), a medical technician (Lou Diamond Phillips), a search and rescue paramedic (Robin Tunney), and a computer technician (Wilson Cruz). When their vessel, the Nightingale 229, answers an emergency distress signal from a comet mining operation in a distant galaxy, the crew soon finds itself in danger from the mysterious young man (Peter Facinelli) they rescue, the alien artifact he's smuggled aboard, and the gravitational pull of a giant star about go supernova the most massive explosion in the universe.

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PG-13, 1 hr. 45 min.

Directed by: Walter Hill, Jack Sholder, Francis Ford Coppola

Release Date: January 14, 2000

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DVD Release Date: August 15, 2001

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  • February 13, 2009
    the script had 1 or 2 interesting aspects, like what happens to the alien object in the end. But everything in the flick really stank.
  • May 26, 2008
    In the distant future a medical rescue ship patrols the neighboring galaxies. The ship receives an urgent distress call from a source that has not been heard from in several years. After making the jump into hyperspace, the crew rescues a loner who smuggles an alien artifact aboa...( read more)rd the ship and the artifact holds a secret power that memorizes the crew and terrorizes at the same time. The only hope of survival rests on a doctor with a past linked to the stranger and a former drug addicted co-pilot.
    Supernova is a movie that got lost by the bean counters. The movie is simply not as bad as some have panned and not as great as the movie could have been. Supernova does a fantastic job with special effects and supports an average script with good veteran thespians. Supernova could have been better is done correctly, but overall the movie receives two exploding stars out of five for the sheer popcorn action of fun the movie posses.
  • October 25, 2007
    Boo.
  • September 18, 2006
    A complete mess but the cast alone makes this an interesting mess. Spader is excellent, as is Angela Bassett. Robin Tunney gets very little to do except get naked frequently and die, but she does it well. The story is nonsense but what did you expect after being rewritten so m...( read more)any times and being passed from director to director in a desperate attempt to save it. Another movie in which the "making of" documentary would be much more interesting than the film itself.
  • January 17, 2008
    Let it be known that if Coppola had kept the scenes in the deleted scenes section in the DVD in the film I would be giving this an easy 4 stars. Not only is Coppla supposedly a hack nowadays, but he irrecoverably hurt Walter Hill's career with his attempt to make a great sci-fi ...( read more)more "mainstream".
  • October 15, 2009
    peter facinelli did a great job in this si-fi thriller it was a pretty basic film, the idea has been applied many times, but the one thing that stood out to me was a computer convinced she cant feel human emotions but is in love with her programmer and even sounds upset when he d...( read more)ies. and another thing that really made this movie great was the 'star dust theory' being applied within the bad guy
  • October 15, 2009
    The first decent deep space movie I've seen in awhile. Everything is going fine for the crew, until, you guessed, they just have to answer a distress signal. They pick up a really fine chap and matters digress from there. Takes up where Alien and Dead Calm left off. NEVER pi...( read more)ck up hitchhikers! Even in, make that ESPECIALLY in outer space!
  • October 10, 2009
    I expected the worst and was pleasantly surprised. This film had an interesting concept that was reasonably well executed. A miscreant galactic hitchiker brings a very interesting object on board a spacecraft. See if you can guess what it is.
  • August 4, 2009
    This was just plain weird...a rather messed up concept."
  • July 12, 2009
    This movie is a big yawner. James Spader, once again, does a great job and he is sexxxy!

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