DramaActionThrillerScience Fiction

Children of Men

- No child has been born for 18 years. He must protect our only hope.

In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.

Release Date : 2006-09-22

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Universal PicturesStrike EntertainmentHit & Run Productions

Production Country : United KingdomUnited States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Theo Faron

Original Name : Clive Owen

Gender : Male

Character Name : Kee

Original Name : Clare-Hope Ashitey

Gender : Female

Character Name : Luke

Original Name : Chiwetel Ejiofor

Gender : Male

Character Name : Julian

Original Name : Julianne Moore

Gender : Female

Character Name : Jasper

Original Name : Michael Caine

Gender : Male

Character Name : Miriam

Original Name : Pam Ferris

Gender : Female

Character Name : Patric

Original Name : Charlie Hunnam

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nigel

Original Name : Danny Huston

Gender : Male

Character Name : Syd

Original Name : Peter Mullan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Marichka

Original Name : Oana Pellea

Gender : Female

Character Name : Tomasz

Original Name : Jacek Koman

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ian

Original Name : Phaldut Sharma

Gender : Male

Character Name : Baby Diego

Original Name : Juan Gabriel Yacuzzi

Gender : Male

Character Name : Newsreader

Original Name : Mishal Husain

Gender : Female

Character Name : Newsreader

Original Name : Rob Curling

Gender : Male

Character Name : Shirley

Original Name : Maria McErlane

Gender : Female

Character Name : Mr. Griffiths

Original Name : Michael Haughey

Gender : Male

Character Name : Caged German Grandmother

Original Name : Miriam Karlin

Gender : Female

Character Name : Janice

Original Name : Philippa Urquhart

Gender : Female

Character Name : Zara

Original Name : Tehmina Sunny

Gender : Female

Character Name : Immigration Policeman

Original Name : Jody Halse

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cigar Man

Original Name : Ilario Bisi-Pedro

Gender : Male

Character Name : Rado

Original Name : Michael Klesic

Gender : Male

Character Name : Birgit

Original Name : Martina Messing

Gender : Female

Character Name : Preacher Trafalgar Square

Original Name : Simon Poland

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ministry Official

Original Name : Barnaby Edwards

Gender : Male

Character Name : Alex

Original Name : Ed Westwick

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dog Track Woman

Original Name : Valerie Griffiths

Gender : Female

Character Name : Bookmaker

Original Name : Billy Cook

Gender : Male

Character Name : Simon

Original Name : Gary Hoptrough

Gender : Male

Character Name : Road Traffic Police

Original Name : Rob Inch

Gender : Male

Character Name : Road Traffic Police

Original Name : Jamie Kenna

Gender : Male

Character Name : Samir

Original Name : Maurice Lee

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dhafer

Original Name : Dhafer L'Abidine

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bruno

Original Name : Bruno Ouvrard

Gender : Male

Character Name : Emily

Original Name : Denise Mack

Gender : Female

Character Name : Joy

Original Name : Joy Richardson

Gender : Female

Character Name : Caroline

Original Name : Caroline Lena Olsson

Gender : Female

Character Name : Milenka

Original Name : Milenka James

Gender : Female

Character Name : Somi

Original Name : Somi De Souza

Gender : Female

Character Name : Francisco

Original Name : Francisco Labbe

Gender : Male

Character Name : Thorston

Original Name : Thorston Manderlay

Gender : Male

Character Name : Georgette

Original Name : Georgia Goodman

Gender : Female

Character Name : Café Customer

Original Name : Jon Chevalier

Gender : Male

Character Name : Café Customer

Original Name : Rita Davies

Gender : Female

Character Name : Café Customer

Original Name : Kim Fenton

Gender : Male

Character Name : Café Customer

Original Name : Chris Gilbert

Gender : Male

Character Name : Café Customer

Original Name : Phoebe Hawthorne

Gender : Female

Character Name : Cafe Customer

Original Name : Rebecca Howard

Gender : Female

Character Name : Café Customer

Original Name : Atalanta White

Gender : Female

Character Name : Café Customer

Original Name : Laurence Woodbridge

Gender : Male

Character Name : German Bus Passenger

Original Name : Dorothy Grumbar

Gender : Female

Character Name : German Bus Passenger

Original Name : Barry Martin

Gender : Male

Character Name : Italian Bus Passenger

Original Name : Ernesto Tomasini

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bexhill Immigration Officer

Original Name : Keith Dunphy

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bexhill Immigration Officer

Original Name : Raymond Trickitt

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bexhill Market Hustler

Original Name : Nabil Shaban

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bexhill Market Hustler

Original Name : Goran Kostić

Gender : Male

Character Name : One-Legged Hustler

Original Name : Dermot O'Neill

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sirdjan

Original Name : Faruk Pruti

Gender : Male

Character Name : Georgian Man

Original Name : Alexandre Bestavashvili

Gender : Male

Character Name : Georgian Woman

Original Name : Galina McWhirr

Gender : Male

Character Name : Wailing Woman

Original Name : Nirmala Martis

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bleeding Woman

Original Name : Ida Church

Gender : Male

Character Name : Spanish Woman

Original Name : Yolanda Vazquez

Gender : Female

Character Name : Soldier

Original Name : Andrew Brooke

Gender : Male

Character Name : Radio Announcer (voice)

Original Name : Nihal Arthanayake

Gender : Male

Character Name : Riot Policeman / Soldier (uncredited)

Original Name : Andy Callaghan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Elite Soldier (uncredited)

Original Name : Forbes KB

Gender : Male

Character Name : Café Customer (uncredited)

Original Name : P. D. James

Gender : Female

Character Name : First Human Project Professor (uncredited)

Original Name : Jamie Lengyel

Gender : Male

Character Name : Terrorist (uncredited)

Original Name : João Costa Menezes

Gender : Male

Character Name : Basque Rebel (uncredited)

Original Name : Vidal Sancho

Gender : Male

Character Name : Taxi Driver (uncredited)

Original Name : John Warman

Gender : Male

Character Name : Injured Refugee (uncredited)

Original Name : Paul Warren

Gender : Male

Character Name : Woman (uncredited)

Original Name : Yana Yanezic

Gender : Female

Character Name : Newsreader (uncredited)

Original Name : Michael Snelders

Gender : Male

Character Name : Soldier (uncredited)

Original Name : Steve Murphy

Gender : Male

Reviews

lkredhat

@lkredhat

2021-06-23

A strong premise and great cast prompted my interest, but the movie falls short of its promise. Clive Owens gives a great performance and a few of the scenes are remarkably memorable and resonant. However, there are very long stretches where the movie simply stagnates and the plot drifts away, especially towards the end. Overall, it's rather melancholy and despite the "action" scenes, not especially thrilling. If you like sci-fi movies set in dystopian futures, or are a big Clive Owen fan, you may still find it worth watching despite its flaws. An aside: One of the "extras" on the DVD has some heavily accented academic trilling at length about the movie's philosophical meaning. It's entertainingly over-the-top and almost unintelligible: jargon piled into a Dagwood sandwich of contradictory abstractions. Anyway, if you don't watch too much of it, its good for a laugh.

talisencrw

@talisencrw

2021-06-23

Cuaron's masterpiece so far (including Gravity, which was gravely miscast). This film is: a) easily the best film of the decade of the 2000's; b) the finest dystopia film since 'A Clockwork Orange' and probably the best sci-fi since '2001: A Space Odyssey'; and c) all the evidence you need that Clive Owen should have been selected as James Bond in place of Daniel Craig. Heartily recommended to anyone interested in how great both science fiction and cinema can possibly be. You may be depressed with the state of both the world and mankind, after watching it, but you won't be disappointed in the possibilities of cinema.

Shreyance Parakh

@shiri4frnz

2021-06-23

**Thought provoking piece of art !!** **CHILDREN OF MEN**....How a baby's cry can make the whole world stop, the bullets stop flying in a war, people forget all their pain, the only thing that matters is how to make that precious gift of god smile again..The movie depicts it beautifully! When the world is falling apart, coming to its end, how a THEO does things that he otherwise would have not done for anything or anybody else...It doesn't seems practical that how at every point of time there is somebody to see them sail through, but that is all LIFE is about...HOPE...There's a THEO in everyone of us...It's in our hands...to choose, THEO or Luke...The world will surely end someday but till then we must all protect the CHILDREN OF MEN, protect the world...Do our bit for the mother earth..!! **P.S. - loved the laughter of the babies in the end!!** Scenes I LOVED - 1. When Julian was shot. 2. When Theo thought Jasper was dead. 3. When Dylan was born. 4. When Theo said to Luke "It's a GIRL" 5. When Marichka expressed she isn't coming. There may be more, but these are all I remembered. Michael Caine was adorable as always, Julianne Moore was pretty, Clive Owen was perfect, Kee was sweet, Miriam was, don't know, clean...at heart !

James

@JN2012

2023-10-22

One of the bleakest, most magnificently crafted films of all time. The dialogue is one-of-a-kind in actually capturing realism.

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2024-08-17

With a society almost entirely devoid of children, the worst news descends as the world's youngest person - merely eighteen - is murdered. Mankind is looking extinction in the face unless a group of anti-establishment folks led by "Julian" (Julianne Moore) and "Luke" (Chiwitel Ejiofor) can get the pregnant young "Kee" (Clare-Hope Ashitey) to safety. To that end, they recruit her unwilling ex-husband "Theo" (Clive Owen) to try and get her from a locked-down Britain to the sea and perhaps to safety in Europe. He has a minor job in the administration that might be able to deliver some transit papers, but this isn't going to be an easy task as nobody can find out the condition of his fellow-traveller. With violence surrounding them and just about everyone in pursuit as an uprising looms, their journey becomes more and more perilous - but can they make it? Now Owen is one of my least favourite British actors. He's up there with the equally wooden Sean Bean, but here he does manage to carry off the role of the vigilante-type survivor who thinks on his feet constantly, unsure who is friend or foe, whilst only really able to rely on the charismatic "Jasper" (Sir Michael Caine) who lives a life with his ailing wife, secluded from society and it's problems. This is a quickly paced drama and the visual effects use only a modicum of pyrotechnics. For the most part it's the photography that sells us this story. The depiction of a city, a country and a society ruined from the inside out - all because it can't perpetuate it's own species. Could things really collapse into anarchy and lawlessness this comprehensively?