Plot & Details
From director David Cronenberg and based on the prophetic novel by Don DeLillo, comes 'Cosmopolis,' a contemporary thriller that turns into a wild, hypnotic odyssey through our new millennium's obsessions with power, money, control, information, technology, violence, sex, mortality, revolution, destruction and ultimately, redemption.
Unfolding in a single cataclysmic day, the story follows Eric Packer (Robert Pattinson) - a 28-year-old financial whiz kid and billionaire asset manager - as he heads out in his tricked-out stretch limo to get a haircut from his father's old barber, while remotely wagering his company's massive fortune on a bet against the Chinese Yuan. Packer's luxe trip across the city quickly becomes dizzyingly hellish as he encounters explosive city riots, a parade of provocative visitors, and is thrust into a myriad of intimate encounters. Having started the day with everything, believing he is the future, Packer's perfectly ordered, doubt-free world is about to implode.
Unfolding in a single cataclysmic day, the story follows Eric Packer (Robert Pattinson) - a 28-year-old financial whiz kid and billionaire asset manager - as he heads out in his tricked-out stretch limo to get a haircut from his father's old barber, while remotely wagering his company's massive fortune on a bet against the Chinese Yuan. Packer's luxe trip across the city quickly becomes dizzyingly hellish as he encounters explosive city riots, a parade of provocative visitors, and is thrust into a myriad of intimate encounters. Having started the day with everything, believing he is the future, Packer's perfectly ordered, doubt-free world is about to implode.
- MPAA Rating: R
- Genre(s): Science Fiction
- Run Time: 108min.
- Theatrical Release Date: 08/17/2012
- DVD Release Date: 12/31/2012
- Status: In Theaters
- Distributor(s): Entertainment One
- Director(s): David Cronenberg
- Starring: Robert Pattinson , Samantha Morton , Juliette Binoche , Paul Giamatti , Sarah Gadon
- Themes: Obsessive Quests,Political Unrest,Hotshots
- Tone: Austere,Bleak,Cerebral,Cynical,Deliberate,Literate,Ominous,Talky
- Keywords: billionaire,traffic,wealth,President,barber,barber-shop,chaos,empire,funeral,hair,limousine,paranoia,revolution,stock-market,turmoil,tycoon
- Country of Origin: USA - Limited (08-17-2012),Canada (06-08-2012)
- Language: English
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