Inception
2010 | 148 min | Action, Science Fiction, Crime
Why it’s a Friday Night Flick
Audiences adore it (8.4/10), it won 4 Oscars, it made about 5 times its budget and people are still talking about it. Make plans for this one.
Our take: A heist movie set inside dreams, with practical effects and a puzzle-box structure people still argue about.
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Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.
How it earned its rating
- CriticsStrong
87% on Rotten Tomatoes, 74 on Metacritic
- AudiencesVery strong
8.4/10 from 41K viewers
- AwardsVery strong
7 wins, 4 other nominations — won Academy Award for Best Cinematography; won Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
- Box office & staying powerVery strong
$839 million worldwide on a $160 million budget
- Buzz & cultural impactVery strong
2.0 million Wikipedia readers in the past year
Where to watch in US
Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home, Spectrum On Demand, Plex
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Cast & crew
Directed by Christopher Nolan
- Leonardo DiCaprioDom Cobb
- Joseph Gordon-LevittArthur
- Ken WatanabeSaito
- Tom HardyEames
- Elliot PageAriadne
- Dileep RaoYusuf
- Cillian MurphyRobert Fischer, Jr.
- Tom BerengerPeter Browning
- Marion CotillardMal Cobb
- Pete PostlethwaiteMaurice Fischer