 The Island
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou, Sean Bean, Steve Buscemi
Directed by: Michael Bay
Screenplay by: Caspian Tredwell-Owen
Release Date: July 22nd, 2005
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, sexuality and language.
Studio: DreamWorks Pictures
 Domestic: $35,818,913 (22.0%)
Foreign: $127,130,251 (78.0%)
Total: $162,949,164 (Worldwide)
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 Tagline: Plan Your Escape.
Lincoln Six-Echo (McGregor) is a resident of a seemingly utopian but contained facility in the mid-21st century. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to the “The Island” — reportedly the last uncontaminated spot on the planet. But Lincoln soon discovers that everything about his existence is a lie.
He and all of the other inhabitants of the facility are actually human clones whose only purpose is to provide “spare parts” for their original human counterparts. Realizing it is only a matter of time before he is “harvested,” Lincoln makes a daring escape with a beautiful fellow resident named Jordan Two-Delta (Johansson). Relentlessly pursued by the forces of the sinister institute that once housed them, Lincoln and Jordan engage in a race for their lives to literally meet their makers.
When the filmmakers first embarked to “The Island,” they might have thought they were creating a futuristic, science fiction actioner about human cloning that bordered on the impossible. However, following recent revelations in the news, producer Walter F. Parkes only half-jokingly acknowledges, “It turns out we were making a contemporary thriller.”
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