Cloud Atlas
- IMDb link: 1371111
- IMDb rating: 7.3 (386,334 votes)
- Genres: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Drama, Mystery
- Director: Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
- Cast: Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving and others
- Release date: 26 Oct 2012
- Release year: 2012
- Runtime: 172 minutes
- Country: United States, Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, United Kingdom, Spain
- Keywords: gay character, future, reincarnation, clone, nonlinear timeline, gay lovers, tribe, futuristic city, dystopia, homosexual kiss
Plot:
The reincarnation of a soul travels through time beginning with the diary of a potential slave-owner voyaging across the Pacific in 1849, then a talented composer writing letters to his lover in the Britain's 1930s, followed by a reporter investigating a corrupt case about a US nuclear power plant in the 1970s, succeeded by a publisher's comical entrapment in a nursing home in 2012, followed by a clone's thrilling escape and rebellion in 2144's Korea, and finally a tribesman fighting cannibals in a forgotten colony world past 2300. Each story challenges the corrupt norms of the time, changing the course of history, and shaping the future through acts of kindness, big and small.