The Astronaut's Wife (1999)

People are voting emotionally.

One of my all time favorites.

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Here's a Theory Why Everyone on the Planet Hated This One. At Least Everyone On This Planet. It's Got Two Popular and Attractive Actors Playing a Very Unlikeable Pretty Boy Astronaut That is Abusive to His Beautiful, Trophy Wife That is in a State of Panic and Depression Through Most of the Film.Not Going to Sit Well with the Popcorn Crowd. Especially Couples Who Came for Some Cheap Scares and Silly Sci-Fi. This is Nothing of the Sort. It is a Relentlessly Downbeat, Creepy, Scary Time At the Movies.The Suspense is Unbearable at Times and There is Virtually No Relief. This is a Horror Show and Most of it is Horrifying and Grates on a Psychological and Emotional Level that is Distinctively Disturbing. It Will Remind Some of Polanski's Rosemary's Baby (1968) and it is Similar in Tone, to The Devil's Advocate (1997) Without the Humor.If You Can Take It, This is Quite an Onslaught of Unordinary Chills. It is a Cousin to the X-Files, a Popular TV-Show from the Decade, but More Unsettling, Kinda Like Millennium, an X-Files Cousin of Its Own, an Underrated and Definitely Downbeat TV-Show from Chris Carter and the X-Files Team that Lasted Three Seasons.This is an Underrated, Well Mounted Movie that is Worth a Watch If You Can Stand the Tension.

The Astronaut's Wife (1999): Dir: Rand Ravich / Cast: Charlize Theron, Johnny Depp, Clea DuVall, Joe Morton, Nick Cassavetes: Basically Rosemary's Baby from space without suspense. A space flight returns two astronauts unconscious. One of them eventually dies while attending a party and his wife electrocutes herself in the bathtub. Johnny Depp plays the astronaut and Charlize Theron plays his wife. After savage love making she becomes pregnant with twins. Joe Morton plays a former employee of the space station who attempts to warn Theron of what really took place. Theron is required to act suspicious until she gives birth to E.T and discover that her husband is a refugee from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Director Rand Ravich does his best to rip off Rosemary's Baby with Theron even getting a Mia Farrow haircut. Depp is in the John Cassavetes role where he is required to creep up and startle Theron at every opportunity. Joe Morton tackles the Maurice Evans role where he attempts a warning. Clea DuVall plays the ill fate sister whose biggest problem isn't her fate, but the reality that her career came down to this. Since this film seems to be ripping off Rosemary's Baby then I strongly recommend that film as oppose to this scare lacking piece of guck. Boring snore fest about as suspenseful as a commercial for laundry detergent. Score: 1 / 10

Jillian (Charlize Theron) is a teacher and her husband Spencer Armacost (Johnny Depp) is an astronaut. Something goes wrong in his mission. He wakes up from his coma as a changed man. His fellow crewman Alex Streck has a disturbing episode and dies. Alex's wife commits suicide. Spencer leaves NASA for the private sector. Jillian feels lost and then she gets pregnant with twins. NASA Representative Sherman Reese (Joe Morton) comes to her with dire warnings.It's a really slow really long countdown. The drama has no bite. The movie has no tension. It turns into Rosemary's Baby midway through but this is nowhere near the classic horror. Johnny Depp doesn't have the menace. It's missing the paranoia. It's never in doubt about Spencer. The climax is less than climatic. It's a mostly weak film.

I found this story riveting. Well worth watching; of course I am a fan of him and his cutting edge rolls. You soon catch on something is wrong. I will not spoil it for you; but keep strict attention and be your own detective on what's not right.The actors are well fitted for the roles and I think proper attention was given to picking them for the roles. It was made in 1999 and they are all younger.I cannot say there was never a moment when you are not enthralled with the story as it unwinds.Being not only a Depp fan and also a buff on science fiction and horror flicks I picked this one to watch out of a dozen offered.Depp is a character actor in the purist sense. This means he learns and adapts to his role.Remember to add this flick to your bucket list to watch.