# The Martian (2015)

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**Runtime**: 141 min
**Genres**: Science Fiction, Drama, Adventure
**Directed by**: Ridley Scott
**Written by**: Drew Goddard
**Starring**: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels, Michael Peña, Sean Bean

> *Bring him home.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Apollo 13 meets MacGyver. Watney’s marooned on Mars with three months of rations and a botany degree. The closest thing to an alien movie where science keeps a man alive until NASA remembers how to fetch him home.

**Mood tags**: cerebral, uplifting

**Critic & audience scores**: IMDb 8.0/10 (999128 users) · Rotten Tomatoes 91% · Metacritic 80/100

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