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Passengers

No. No. No. No No. No. No. I don't know who convinced Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt to make Passengers, but they should be fired. The film follows Jim (Chris Pratt), a mechanic who agrees to take a voyage to start a new life on a colony. The initial idea is that the trip entails 120 years of hibernation, followed by four months of reintegration to prepare passengers for life on the foreign land. Where Jim comes into play is that he awakens 90 years before the scheduled integration period when his hibernation pod malfunctions. After spending a year by himself, he decides to wake up another passenger. He chooses Aurora (Jennifer Lawrence), a writer who chose to go on the trip to become the first person ever to travel to a colony and back. She has no idea that Jim woke her up and believes that it was a pod malfunction like Jim's. They fall in love, but as the ship begins to decompose and threatens the life of the 5,000 people in hibernation, it is up to them to try and save