What age rating is The Fountain?

In Spain, The Fountain is not recommended for children under 16 years old.

When does The Fountain come out in Spain?

The Fountain hits Spanish theaters on April 27, 2007.

How much did The Fountain gross?

The Fountain grossed $15.3M worldwide on a budget of $35.0M.

Where was The Fountain filmed?

The Fountain was filmed in Montreal.

The Fountain

Name: The Fountain
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Genre: Science Fiction, Drama, Romance
Released: 2006-11-22
Duration: 1 h 36 min
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Ellen Burstyn, Mark Margolis, Stephen McHattie

2006

Become a fan of its genres:

6.9/10

Release Date

22/11/2006

Popularity

🍅 Rotten Tomatoes

52%

🎬 Internet Movie Database

71%

Ⓜ️ Metacritic

51%

What if you could live forever?

Darren Aronofsky directs this movie starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz. Tommy, a present-day surgeon, watches his wife, Isabel, waste away from a brain tumor. Isabel is a writer who has spent months working on a story about Tomás, a vassal searching for the elixir of immortality, an eternal life that can only be reached by drinking from the tree of life. Inspired by those pages, Tommy plunges into a world of research and experiments to create a cure that will save the woman he loves. The search consumes him completely, and he begins to blend what he reads with what he lives, while time runs against him.

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Facts about The Fountain

Releases, age ratings, box office, post-credit scenes and more.

Post-credits sceneNone

Age ratingNot recommended for viewers under 16 years old

Spain releaseApril 27, 2007

Worldwide premiereSeptember 4, 2006

Runtime1 h 36 min

Original languageEnglish

Original titleThe Fountain

CountryUnited States

Production companiesRegency Enterprises, Protozoa Pictures, New Regency Pictures

Budget$35.0M

Worldwide box office$15.3M

Box office in the U.S.$10.1M

Box office returnx0.4 Box office flop

Trailer views42K

More ratings

3.5/5Letterboxd70/100Trakt7.9/10Metacritic (público)2.5/4Roger Ebert

Awards for The Fountain

9total awards

38total nominations

The Fountain Cast

Hugh JackmanTomás / Tom Creo / Tommy

Rachel WeiszIsabel / Izzi Creo

Ellen BurstynDr. Lillian Guzetti

Mark MargolisFather Avila

Stephen McHattieGrand Inquisitor Silecio

Fernando HernándezLord of Xibalba

Cliff CurtisCaptain Ariel

Sean Patrick ThomasAntonio

Donna MurphyBetty

Ethan SupleeManny

Richard McMillanHenry

Lorne BrassDr. Alan Lipper

Abraham AronofskyLab Technician

Renee AsofskyLab Technician

Anish MajumdarDr. Spencer

Janique KearnsYoung Nurse

Boyd BanksDominican Monk

Alex BispingFoot Soldier Del Toro

Kevin KelsallFoot Soldier Rivera

Patrick VandalFoot Soldier Galleano

Marcello BezinaFoot Soldier Borjes

Hugo Salvador Gutierrez AguilarMayan Warrior

Eric Carmelo Valenzuela BatzMayan Warrior

Elfego Vinicio Pena CastellanosMayan Warrior

Jose Maria Tol ChanMayan Warrior

Benjamin Panjoj CortezMayan Warrior

Juan Salvador LaresMayan Warrior

Jose Alfredo Conoz MacarioMayan Warrior

Tomas Tol NixMayan Warrior

Luis Alfredo Yac NojMayan Warrior

Mateo Martin PerezMayan Warrior

Edson Vasquez PixabajMayan Warrior

Marvin Leonardo Raxtun RaxtunMayan Warrior

Tomas Morales SacquicMayan Warrior

Santos Ajic SaponMayan Warrior

Xaijil SicajanMayan Warrior

Manuel Antonio Salvador TolMayan Warrior

Tomas Salvador TolMayan Warrior

Tomas Augustin Canil VenturaMayan Warrior

Carlos Enrique Ramos XalcutMayan Warrior

Octavio Guadelupe Zabala XitamulMayan Warrior

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Cast of The Fountain by the numbers

48average cast age in years

1years of age gap between the leads

20%women in the cast

24%women in the crew

The youngest in the main cast: Ethan Suplee, age 30 at release. The oldest: Ellen Burstyn, at 74.

Cast ages at release

Hugh Jackman38 years old
Rachel Weisz37 years old
Ellen Burstyn74 years old
Mark Margolis67 years old
Stephen McHattie60 years old
Cliff Curtis38 years old
Sean Patrick Thomas36 years old
Donna Murphy48 years old
Ethan Suplee30 years old

Cast heights

1.88 mHugh Jackman
1.85 mEthan Suplee
1.84 mCliff Curtis
1.80 mMark Margolis
1.80 mStephen McHattie
1.73 mSean Patrick Thomas
1.68 mRachel Weisz

Cast nationalities

United States 4Canada 1Australia 1New Zealand 1

Crew

AddressDarren Aronofsky
WritingDarren Aronofsky
MusicClint Mansell
PhotographyMatthew Libatique
EditingJay Rabinowitz
Production designJames Chinlund
Costume designRenée April
CastingMary Vernieu, Robin D. Cook, Elfego Vinicio Pena Castellanos
Visual effectsLaurent M. Abecassis, Henrik Fett, Raymond Gieringer
ProductionArnon Milchan, Iain Smith, Eric Watson

Trivia about The Fountain

Peter Parks created all of the movie's visual effects work for 140,000 dollars, instead of the millions a single special effects sequence could cost.

Clint Mansell was nominated for a 2006 Golden Globe for the movie's soundtrack, but the award went to Alexandre Desplat for The Painted Veil.

Hugh Jackman practiced tai chi for seven months to film a scene lasting just 30 seconds in which he performs it.

Brad Pitt left the project seven weeks before the first day of filming, after the script revisions he had requested were not accepted.

Aronofsky removed the butterflies from the death scene to reduce computer-generated imagery, but kept the flowers that bloom from the body.

The movie's sets, including a ten-story Mayan temple, were auctioned off along with props and other objects after the project was canceled in 2002.

The budget for The Fountain was cut from 75 to 35 million dollars when the project resumed production in 2004, with Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz starring.

Darren Aronofsky approached Hugh Jackman backstage during their performance in «The Boy from Oz»; the next day, the actor agreed to join the movie.

Sources: Wikipedia (English) · Wikipedia (Spanish)

What it's about The Fountain

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Main theme: brain tumor