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The astronaut's wife

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Imagine the face of terror is the one you love.

They were the perfect all-American couple - a courageous, honoured NASA astronaut Spencer Armacost (Johnny Depp) and his beautiful school-teacher wife Jillian (Charlize Theron). They were passionately in love, so connected they could sense each other even when he was floating in space and she was 300,000 kilometres below.

And in two minutes it all turned to inexplicable terror.

For two minutes, Spencer loses total consciousness while on a bold space shuttle mission, returning home just barely alive and a bewildered hero. The President, the nation and his friends celebrate his safe return but to his wife Jillian something seems strangely amiss from the moment he returns to Earth.

Though very much in love with her husband, Jillian cannot help but question what happened to him out there in the lonely vacuum of space and whether it has changed him - and their marriage - in some profound way. Especially when she begins having strangely violent dreams; dark, paranoid thoughts; and the strangest sensation that her husband is not the lover, or the man, he used to be. Things only get worse when Spencer's partner in space, Alex Streck (Nick Cassavetes), and his wife Natalie (Donna Murphy) experience their own mysterious ends.

Turning from a NASA career to a lucrative rocket-designing job in the private sector, Spencer and Jillian move to a lavish new apartment in Manhattan. Soon after, Jillian finds out she is expecting - and in keeping with the increase of her new life, she is expecting twins. But something is not quite right with this dream pregnancy, either. As her pregnancy advances, Jillian descends into a nightmare. Is it just pre-partum hormonal craziness or is there something terribly wrong with Jillian's husband and babies? Is she just paranoid or is there really a conspiracy between Spencer, her doctors and even her closest family and friends to keep her in the dark? And is it just embittered former NASA employee Sherman Reese's (Joe Morton) fantasy, or is she really carrying inside her the end of humanity as we know it?