| In a world where women no longer can have babies | | | | will protect her and her baby from the political turmoil |
| and hope for the future of the human race stands with | | | | which has gripped the world. |
| the myth of a group of people trying to save humanity | | | | The film itself is a return for director Cuaron to the |
| through The Human Project, Theodore "Theo" Faron | | | | more intimate films like his Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN, |
| believes there is nothing left of humanity and that it will | | | | following the more commercial HARRY POTTER & |
| all end in fifty years. This is the basic premise of | | | | THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN, GREAT |
| director Alfonso Cuaron's CHILDREN OF MEN, which | | | | EXPECTATIONS (1998), and A LITTLE PRINCESS. |
| stars Clive Owen as Theo, Julianne Moore as his | | | | Although predictable in its plot structure CHILDREN OF |
| estranged ex-wife and reistence leader Julian Taylor, | | | | MEN prevails thanks to the suburb casting especially |
| Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Michael Caine, who round out the | | | | newcomer Ashitey who brings light humor to the role |
| cast. Similar in tone to the more overt sci-fi films | | | | that stems from character and Kee's trying to deal |
| BLADE RUNNER and SCREAMERS, CHILDREN OF | | | | with being the first women to be pregnant in eighteen |
| MEN brings its pesimistic view of the future and puts it | | | | years. There are many unanswered questions within |
| just a few decades from modern times. | | | | the structure of the film that may turn off some |
| The story concerns Theo, a man who having lost all | | | | viewers but Cuaron is more worried about creating |
| hope and reason for living when his son died, must help | | | | emotion out of the circumstances of the characters |
| Kee (Clair-Hope Ashitey) the first pregnant woman in | | | | than with explaining how everything became the way |
| over eighteen years get to The Human Project, who | | | | it is in his futuristic world. |