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Last modified: Sep. 3, 2016

Approaching the Unknown

Release Date: Friday, June 3, 2016 Limited

Director: Mark Elijah Rosenberg

Starring: Mark Strong Luke Wilson Sanaa Lathan Charles Baker

N/A Sci-Fi 1 hr, 30 m

  • 2.6 / 5.0
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Plot
Captain William D. Stanaforth (Mark Strong) is on a one-way solo mission, taking humanity’s first steps toward colonizing Mars. Although the entire world is watching him, he is completely alone in a dark and distant sea of stars. Stanaforth rockets bravely through space facing insurmountable odds, but as the journey takes a toll on his life-sustaining systems, he is forced to make impossible choices that threaten his sanity, mission and very existence.
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Runtime
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Language
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Approaching the Unknown Release Date: When was the film released?

Approaching the Unknown was released in limited movie theaters on Friday, June 3 , 2016. There were nine other movies released on the same date, including Me Before You, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows. As a limited release, Approaching the Unknown was shown in select movie theaters in major markets.

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