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Netflix presents a film directed by George Clooney and written by Mark L. Smith, based on the novel “Good Morning, Midnight” by Lily Brooks-Dalton. Rated PG-13 (for some bloody images and brief strong language). Running time: 118 minutes. Available Wednesday on Netflix. In the upcoming “Wonder Woman 1984,” the world has been thrown into chaos and we’re on the brink of nuclear war. In “Songbird,” an advanced strain of COVID has a mortality rate of 56% and virtually the entire U.S. population is in lockdown. In “Fatman,” Christmas is under siege when a hired assassin tries to take out Santa Claus.
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Dec. 20, 2020
We can only assume the executives at Netflix stopped listening after the first few words of the original film pitch – “There’s this old guy with a white beard, working in the Arctic Circle…” – when they decided to release “The Midnight Sky” just in time for Christmas. Either that or they’re trying really hard to position themselves as the “anti-Hallmark” with this sci-fi drama, which is set in the year 2049 after an unseen cataclysmic event destroys most of Earth.
I’m sure plenty of people will find George Clooney’s latest movie a tad too sentimental or soporific for their tastes, but I was ultimately rather touched and moved by this adaptation of Lily Brooks-Dalton’s 2016 novel “Good Morning, Midnight.”
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George Clooney and Caoilinn Springall, The Midnight Sky
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THE MIDNIGHT SKY (Cert 12, 122 mins, streaming from December 23 exclusively on Netflix, Sci-Fi/Drama/Action/Romance)
IN FEBRUARY 2049, three weeks after a global catastrophe known as “the event”, scientist Augustine Lofthouse (George Clooney) lives out his final days alone at the Barbeau Observatory in the Arctic Circle, one of the few places yet to be choked by dangerously high levels of radiation.
He performs blood transfusions to counter the cancer ravaging his body and awaits the inevitable, until he stumbles upon a young girl named Iris (Caoilinn Springall) left behind in the evacuation.
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