The Aeronauts (2019)

Directed by

Tom Harper

Genre

drama film, action film, adventure film, biographical film

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 41m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 1,207 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A scientist and a balloon pilot team up to fly a gas balloon to record heights in the 19th century. They face extreme weather and thin air as they try to break altitude records.

breezysoaringdeterminedawe-inspiringperilousnostalgicrousingvisually lush

What happens

The Aeronauts is a 2019 biographical adventure film directed by Tom Harper and written by Jack Thorne, from a story co-written by Thorne and Harper. The film is based on the 2013 book Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Richard Holmes. Produced by Todd Lieberman, David Hoberman, and Tom Harper, the film stars Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Himesh Patel and Tom Courtenay. The film had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on 30 August 2019, followed by a showing at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. It was released in the United Kingdom on 4 November 2019, and in the United States on 6 December 2019. The film received mostly positive reviews from critics, but was the subject of controversy for its historical revisionism of one of the two protagonists. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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