The Aeronauts (film)

The Aeronauts
Theatrical release poster
Directed byTom Harper
Screenplay byJack Thorne
Story by
  • Tom Harper
  • Jack Thorne
Based onFalling Upwards: How We Took to the Air
by Richard Holmes
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyGeorge Steel
Edited byMark Eckersley
Music bySteven Price
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 30 August 2019 (2019-08-30) (Telluride)
  • 4 November 2019 (2019-11-04) (United Kingdom)
  • 6 December 2019 (2019-12-06) (United States)
Running time
100 minutes[2]
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • United States[3]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$40 million[4]
Box office$7 million[5][6][7]

The Aeronauts is a 2019 biographical adventure film directed by Tom Harper and written by Jack Thorne, from a story co-written by Thorne and Harper. The film is based on the 2013 book Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Richard Holmes.[8] Produced by Todd Lieberman, David Hoberman, and Harper, the film stars Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Himesh Patel and Tom Courtenay.[9]

The film had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on 30 August 2019, followed by a showing at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival.[10][11] It was released in the United Kingdom on 4 November 2019, and in the United States on 6 December 2019. The film received mostly positive reviews from critics, but it was generally criticized for the attempted inappropriate historical revisionism of one of the two protagonists.

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