The Fountain (2006)

The Fountain rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.1/10· 256K votes

Rotten Tomatoes52%

Metacritic51%

TMDb6.911/10· 3K votes

With 52% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.1/10 on IMDb and 51/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been mixed.

About The Fountain

Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.

Cast of The Fountain

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  Hugh Jackman

  as Tomás / Tom Creo / Tommy

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  Rachel Weisz

  as Isabel / Izzi Creo

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  Ellen Burstyn

  as Dr. Lillian Guzetti

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  Mark Margolis

  as Father Avila

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  Stephen McHattie

  as Grand Inquisitor Silecio

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  Fernando Hernández

  as Lord of Xibalba

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  Cliff Curtis

  as Captain Ariel

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  Sean Patrick Thomas

  as Antonio

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  Donna Murphy

  as Betty

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  Ethan Suplee

  as Manny

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  Richard McMillan

  as Henry

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  Lorne Brass

  as Dr. Alan Lipper

The Fountain facts

Budget

$35M

Box office

$15.3M

Our take on The Fountain

Darren Aronofsky's 2006 film weaves three parallel stories across more than a thousand years into a single meditation on love, death and mortality's fragile grip on us. Adventure, romance and science-fiction blur as the narrative reaches from the distant past toward a far-off future, circling the same ache of loss and the longing to hold on. It's a visually rapturous, intensely emotional work that trades conventional plotting for symbolism, ritual and feeling. This suits viewers open to abstraction, spiritual questioning and cinema that prioritises mood over explanation. Those wanting a clear, literal story may find it opaque, but the receptive will find it moving and unusually tender.