SOURCE CODE
Year: 2011
USA: Summit Entertainment
UK: Optimum Releasing
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michaelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright, Russell Peters, James A. Woods, Cas Anvar, Joe Cobden
Director: Duncan Jones
Country: USA
USA: 94 mins
UK: 93 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for some violence including disturbing images, and for language
UK Certificate: 12A contains one use of strong language and moderate threat
USA Release Date: 1 April 2011
UK Release Date: 1 April 2011
Synopsis
A helicopter pilot recruited for a top-secret military operation finds himself on a startlingly different kind of mission in SOURCE CODE, a smart, fast-paced action thriller that challenges our assumptions about time and space.
Filled with mind-boggling twists and heart-pounding suspense, SOURCE CODE is directed by Duncan Jones (Moon).
Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) awakens on a speeding commuter train with no idea how he got there. Seated across from him is Christina (Michelle Monaghan), a woman he doesn’t know, but who clearly believes she knows him. Seeking refuge in the bathroom, he’s shocked to see another man’s reflection in the mirror and ID cards in his wallet belonging to school teacher Sean Fentress.
Suddenly a massive explosion rips through the train. Almost instantly, Colter is transported to a high-tech isolation unit where a uniformed woman named Goodwin (Vera Farmiga) demands to know everything he saw.
Colter has been on a high-priority mission to identify a bomber who destroyed a train just hours earlier and who plans to kill thousands more with a much larger explosion in the heart of Chicago.
A top-secret program, code-named ‘source code’, allows Colter to exist briefly as Sean in the parallel reality of the doomed commuter train. Each time he returns to the train, Colter has just eight minutes to uncover the bomber’s identity. He gathers new bits of evidence each time, but his quarry eludes him.
The more he learns, the more convinced he becomes that he can prevent the deadly blast from ever happeningâ€"unless time runs out first.