Avatar

Release Date: Friday, December 18, 2009 Nationwide Friday, September 23, 2022 Nationwide

Zoe Saldana, Michelle Rodriguez, Sam Worthington, Giovanni Ribisi, Sigourney Weaver, James Cameron, Jon Landau, Stephen Lang, Wes Studi, Matt Gerald, C.C.H. Pounder

PG-13 Action 2 hrs, 36 m

  • 4.3

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Plot

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Plot
In the epic action adventure fantasy "Avatar", James Cameron, the director of "Titanic", takes us to a spectacular new world beyond our imagination. On the distant moon Pandora, a reluctant hero embarks on a journey of redemption, discovery and unexpected love - as he leads a heroic battle to save a civilization.

The story’s protagonist, Jake Sully, is an ex-Marine who was wounded and paralyzed from the waist down in combat on Earth. In order to participate in the Avatar program, which will give him a healthy body, Jake agrees to travel to Pandora, a lush rainforest environment filled with incredible life forms – some beautiful, many terrifying. Pandora is also the home to the Na’vi, a humanoid race that lives at what we consider to be a primate level, but they are actually much more evolved than humans. Ten feet tall and blue skinned, the Na’vi live harmoniously within their unspoiled world. But as humans encroach on Pandora in search of valuable minerals, the Na’vi’s very existence is threatened – and their warrior abilities unleashed.

Jake has unwittingly been recruited to become part of this encroachment. Since humans are unable to breathe the air on Pandora, they have created genetically-bred human-Na’vi hybrids known as Avatars. The Avatars are living, breathing bodies in the real world, controlled by a human driver through a technology that links the driver’s mind to the Avatar body. On Pandora, through his Avatar body, Jake can be whole once again. Moreover, he falls in love with a young Na’vi woman, Neytiri, whose beauty is matched by her ferocity in battle.

As Jake slides deeper into becoming one of her clan, he finds himself caught between the military-industrial forces of Earth, and the Na’vi – forcing him to choose sides in an epic battle that will decide the fate of an entire world.

Conceived 14 years ago and over four years in the making, "Avatar" breaks new ground in delivering a fully immersive, emotional story and reinvents the moviegoing experience.
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The film's director James Cameron last directed The Abyss and Avatar: The Way of Water. The film's writer James Cameron last wrote Avatar: The Way of Water and Alita: Battle Angel.

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James Cameron
Jon Landau

Additional Information

MPA Rating
PG-13 Parents Strongly Cautioned for intense epic battle sequences and warfare, sensuality, language and some smoking
Runtime
2 hrs, 36 m
Tagline
An All New World Awaits
Also known as
Project 880

Language
English

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Key Facts

  • More than ten years in the making, "Avatar" marks Cameron's return to feature directing since helming 1997's "Titanic", the highest grossing film of all time and winner of eleven Oscars® including Best Picture. WETA Digital, renowned for its work in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy and "King Kong", will incorporate new intuitive CGI technologies to transform the environments and characters into photorealistic 3D imagery that will transport the audience into the alien world rich with imaginative vistas, creatures and characters.

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Release Dates

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Avatar was released in nationwide movie theaters on Friday, December 18, 2009 . in around 3,452 theaters There were 4 other movies released on the same date, including Nine, The Young Victoria and Fall Down Dead. Additional information: IMAX 3-D and conventional 3-D theaters.



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