SUPERNOVA
Year: 2000
UK: UIP (UK)
Cast: James Spader, Robin Tunney, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Lou Diamond Phillips, Peter Facinelli, Wilson Cruz, Vanessa Marshall, Eddy Rice Jr, Knox White, Kerrigan Mahan, Vanessa Marshall
Director: Walter Hill (aka Thomas Lee)
Country: USA
UK: 90 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for sci-fi action violence and sensuality/nudity
UK Certificate: 15 for moderate sex, violence and horror
USA Release Date: 14 January 2000
UK Release Date: 16 June 2000
Synopsis
Supernova is a science fiction thriller that chronicles the high-stakes adventures of a deep space hospital ship and its six member crew, including Co-Pilot Nick Vanzant (James Spader), Captain A J Marley (Robert Forster) and Chief Medical Officer (Angela Bassett).
When their vessel, the Nightingale 229, answers an emergency distress signal from a distant galaxy, the crew soon finds itself in danger from the mysterious young man they rescue, the alien artefact he smuggled aboard and the gravitational pull of a giant star about to go supernova -- the most massive explosion in the universe.