The Aeronauts (film)
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The Aeronauts is a 2019 revisionist biographical adventure film directed by Tom Harper and written by Jack Thorne, from a story co-written by Thorne and Harper. The film is based on the 2013 book Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Richard Holmes.[8] Produced by Todd Lieberman, David Hoberman, and Harper, the film stars Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Himesh Patel and Tom Courtenay.[9]
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Directed by | Tom Harper |
Screenplay by | Jack Thorne |
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Based on | Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Richard Holmes |
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Cinematography | George Steel |
Edited by | Mark Eckersley |
Music by | Steven Price |
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Running time | 100 minutes[2] |
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Language | English |
Budget | $40 million[4] |
Box office | $7 million[5][6][7] |
The film had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on 30 August 2019, followed by a showing at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival.[10][11] It was released in the United Kingdom on 4 November 2019, and in the United States on 6 December 2019. The film received mostly positive reviews from critics, but it was generally criticized for the attempted inappropriate historical revisionism of one of the two really existed protagonists.