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Why Astronauts Shouldn't Get Married
01/09/1999 Source: Jessica Martin 

Now here comes an interesting little film starring Johnny Depp, Charlize Theron, Blair Brown, Nick Cassavetes, and Joe Morton.

Buy The Astronaut's Wife in the USA - or Buy The Astronaut's Wife in the UK

The Astronaut's Wife is a psychological thriller in which Johnny Depp plays Spencer Armacost, a NASA spacer dispatched on a mission with his team mate, Captain Alex Streck.

While in orbit an accident occurs that cuts off contact between the shuttle and ground control for over three minutes.

Both astronauts come back from the mission with no memory of their lost time. It all gets a bit hairy when Captain Streck dies of causes the NASA doctors can't identify.

The surviving astronaut's wife Jillian, up the duff with twins, begins to realise that something happened on the mission during her husband's lost time - and it isn't anything nice for her, her kids, or indeed, the planet as a whole.

Wife Charlize Theron is probably best known as the female lead in The Devil's Advocate. And Johnny Depp, well if you haven't heard of him, then you're not getting out to the cinema enough.

This film struck us as a little like an episode of the X-Files featuring no FBI agents.

In fact, we seem to recall a NASA astronaut alien possession story in space type story in one of the first season X File episodes.

It's a diverting enough movie, but the premise is a little basic and the film's 'hidden secret' will hardly come as much of a surprise to any heavy sci-fi fans out there.

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