QWhat is 'Mission to Mars' about?
AWhen the crew of the first manned exploration to Mars, led by Commander Luke Graham (Don Cheadle), are hit by a mysterious storm on the planet surface that takes out most of their electronic equipment, only Graham manages to transmit a garbled message to Earth Control. A rescue mission, led by co-commanders Jim McConnell (Gary Sinise) and Woodrow "Woody" Blake (Tim Robbins), along with mission specialists Terri Fisher (Connie Nielsen) and Phil Ohlmyer (Jerry O'Connell), is launched to rescue the survivors, if there are any, and to figure out what went wrong.
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QAny recommendations for other movies like 'Mission to Mars'?
AMission to Mars leaves the viewer with a good feeling about contact with friendly, benevolent aliens. Other movies that leave viewers with a similar feeling include Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), in which people from all over the U.S. are drawn to witness the landing of an alien spaceship, and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), in which a young boy helps a friendly extraterrestrial to 'phone home' for a ride. In Cocoon (1985), several elderly people contact alien cocoon with an unexpected side effect. In The Abyss (1989), a team from a drilling rig encounter water-breathing aliens under the ocean. Contact (1997) tells the story of a SETI worker who is the first to make contact with life beyond Earth. Another movie to which Mission to Mars is often compared is Prometheus (2012), in which a group of scientific researchers travel to a distant moon hoping to find the answer to humanity's origins.
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