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Tenet

2020 · Film · 150 min

  • Action
  • Thriller
  • Science Fiction

Plot

Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.

About Tenet

Tenet (stylized in all caps, previously as TENƎꓕ) is a 2020 science fiction action film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who also produced it with his wife, Emma Thomas. It stars John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia, Michael Caine, and Kenneth Branagh. The film follows a CIA officer who is recruited into a secret organization, tasked with tracing the origin of objects that are traveling backward through time and their connection to an attack by the future. Nolan took over five years to write the screenplay after deliberating about Tenet's central ideas for more than a decade. Pre-production began in late 2018, casting took place in March 2019, and principal photography lasted six months in multiple countries. After delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Tenet was released in the United Kingdom on August 26, 2020, and in the United States on September 3, 2020. It was Nolan's last film to be released by Warner Bros. Pictures. Tenet was the first Hollywood tent-pole or blockbuster to open in theaters during the pandemic and grossed $376.6 million worldwide on a $205 million budget, making it the fifth-highest-grossing film of 2020 despite failing to break even. The film received generally favorable reviews, but divided critics more than Nolan's previous works. It won Best Visual Effects at the 93rd Academy Awards and received numerous…

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Cast

  • John David WashingtonProtagonist
  • Robert PattinsonNeil
  • Elizabeth DebickiKat
  • Kenneth BranaghSator
  • Dimple KapadiaPriya
  • Michael CaineCrosby
  • Martin DonovanFay
  • Fiona DourifWheeler
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