Daily puzzle #1

The answer: Interstellar

Movie · 2014 · Christopher Nolan

Christopher Nolan built this space epic on the physicist Kip Thorne's work on black holes, and the effects team's renders of Gargantua were detailed enough to be written up in a scientific paper. Under the science it is a story about a father and daughter and the time they cannot get back, which is why the bookshelf scene hits as hard as the docking sequence. Watch it on the biggest screen you can find, with the volume up.

The six clues

1. A science fiction film from 2014 that runs for nearly three hours.
2. Its director wrote the script with his brother and is known for mind-bending blockbusters.
3. A widowed farmer and former test pilot leaves his two children on an Earth choked by dust storms and crop blight.
4. One hour on a water-covered planet near a black hole costs the crew 23 years back home.
5. Hans Zimmer's score is built around a church pipe organ.
6. Matthew McConaughey plays Cooper, who travels through a wormhole near Saturn.

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