Cloud Atlas (2012)

Actors: Hugh Grant (actor), Jim Broadbent (actor), Keith David (actor), Jim Broadbent (actor), Jim Broadbent (actor), Jim Broadbent (actor), Jim Broadbent (actor), James D'Arcy (actor), James D'Arcy (actor), James D'Arcy (actor), James D'Arcy (actor), Keith David (actor), Keith David (actor), Keith David (actor), Hugh Grant (actor),

Plot: Everything is connected: an 1849 diary of an ocean voyage across the Pacific; letters from a composer to his lover; a thriller about a murder at a nuclear power plant; a farce about a publisher in a nursing home; a rebellious clone in futuristic Korea; and the tale of a tribe living in post-apocalyptic Hawaii, far in the future.

Keywords: 1850s, 1930s, 1970s, 19th-century, 20th-century, 2140s, 21st-century, actor-playing-multiple-roles, actress-playing-multiple-roles, ageing
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi,
Taglines: Everything Is Connected

Quotes:

[from trailer]::Isaac Sachs: Yesterday, I believe I would never have done what I did today. I feel like something important has happened to me. Is this possible? I just met her, and yet... I have fallen in love with Luisa Rey.

[from trailer]::Javier: What are you reading?::Luisa Rey: Old letters.::Javier: Why do you keep reading them?::Luisa Rey: I don't know. Just trying to understand why we keep making the same mistakes... over and over.

[from trailer]::Robert Frobisher: A half-finished book is, after all, a half finished love affair.

[from trailer]::Vyvyan Ayrs: That's it! The music from my dream.::Robert Frobisher: I call it the "Cloud Atlas Sextet".

[from trailer]::Robert Frobisher: I believe there is a another world waiting for us, Sixsmith. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

[repeated line]::Mr. Meeks: I know, I know!

Sonmi-451: ...from womb to tomb, our lives are not our own...

Timothy Cavendish: I will not be subjected to criminal abuse.

Timothy Cavendish: We cross and re-cross our old paths like figure-skaters.

Haskell Moore: There is a natural order to this world, and those who try to upend it do not fare well. This movement will never survive; if you join them, you and your entire family will be shunned. At best, you will exist a pariah to be spat at and beaten-at worst, to be lynched or crucified. And for what? For what? No matter what you do it will never amount to anything more than a single drop in a limitless ocean.::Adam Ewing: What is an ocean but a multitude of drops?