Cloud Atlas DVD

The Wachowski siblings and Tom Tykwer write and direct this drama, adapted from the novel by David Mitchell, about how every being is interconnected over the course of many eras. Set in past, present and future worlds, the film follows six intertwined storylines. In 1849, during the California Gold Rush, lawyer Adam Ewing Jim Sturgess, who is suffering from an ailment, meets Dr. Henry Goose Tom Hanks and unwillingly helps to hide slave Autua David Gyasi. In 1936, impoverished musician Robert Frobisher Ben Whishaw finds employment with a composer and in time writes a magnificent piece of his own. In 1975, nuclear physicist Rufus Sixsmith James D'Arcy helps journalist Luisa Rey Halle Berry expose the truth about a new power plant. In 2012, elderly publisher Timothy Cavendish Jim Broadbent finds himself stuck in a nursing home and tries to escape. In a totalitarian world in the 22nd century