In a science fiction movie Ad Astra Brad Pitt goes looking for his missing father in space.
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Ad Astra
This first happened in a Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A space journey And in recent years also in films such as gravity And Interstellar. also Ad Astra Fits this list.
In this film, Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) goes to Neptune to see if his father (Tommy Lee Jones), who was there on a mission thirty years ago, is responsible for a strange phenomenon that is causing a dangerous situation on Earth.
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Tommy Lee Jones
Ad Astra He is It's not the first film in which Tommy Lee Jones plays an old astronaut. He already did so in 2000 Space cowboy. In fact, he's wearing the same spacesuit here as in this movie. There was only one small modification made to this suit: patches with logos on them. in Space cowboy Jones had the NASA logo on his shoulders Ad Astra They are Space Comm badges.
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