
The Aeronauts
Amelia Wren (Oscar nominee Felicity Jones) and scientist James Glaisher (Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne) must fight survival on a hot air balloon in this biographical adventure flick directed by BAFTA nominee Tom Harper.
- Director:
- Tom Harper ('Wild Rose', 'War & Peace', 'War Book')
- Writer:
- Jack Thorne
- Cast:
- Eddie RedmayneFelicity JonesTom CourtenayTim McInnernyVincent PerezPhoebe FoxHimesh Patel



Reviews & comments

Stuff
pressA kind of Touching the Void-meets-Gravity – with sumptuous costuming – The Aeronauts is well worth seeking out.

Screen Daily
pressA thrilling, action-packed, wide-vista yarn from the sharp quills of Jack Thorne and co-writer and director Tom Harper, this Amazon-backed project is deceptively simple yet surprisingly deft.

Time Out
pressSuspend all disbelief, hold tight to the wicker basket and go along for the ride.

The Guardian
pressIt is a film with charm and the chemistry between Jones and Redmayne has something rather platonic and even sibling-like, but that isn’t to say there isn’t a spark of sorts.

IndieWire
pressThere’s enough potential with the balloon’s feats to justify an entire feature-length experience set within its basket, but “The Aeronauts” constantly interrupts the journey to shoehorn random tangents on the ground, and busies up the drama with underdeveloped side characters.

Variety
pressThe duo [of Redmayne and Jones] hand-in-hand elevates [The Aeronauts] ... from a flimsy action-adventure to something worth watching on the biggest possible screen, even if it operates on a handful of clichés with little character-based substance to speak of.

Hollywood Reporter
pressThe Aeronauts achieves impressive elevation as a bracing and sympathetic account of two early and very different aviators who together reached literal new heights in a perilous field of endeavor.

Stuff
pressA kind of Touching the Void-meets-Gravity – with sumptuous costuming – The Aeronauts is well worth seeking out.

Screen Daily
pressA thrilling, action-packed, wide-vista yarn from the sharp quills of Jack Thorne and co-writer and director Tom Harper, this Amazon-backed project is deceptively simple yet surprisingly deft.

Time Out
pressSuspend all disbelief, hold tight to the wicker basket and go along for the ride.

The Guardian
pressIt is a film with charm and the chemistry between Jones and Redmayne has something rather platonic and even sibling-like, but that isn’t to say there isn’t a spark of sorts.

IndieWire
pressThere’s enough potential with the balloon’s feats to justify an entire feature-length experience set within its basket, but “The Aeronauts” constantly interrupts the journey to shoehorn random tangents on the ground, and busies up the drama with underdeveloped side characters.

Variety
pressThe duo [of Redmayne and Jones] hand-in-hand elevates [The Aeronauts] ... from a flimsy action-adventure to something worth watching on the biggest possible screen, even if it operates on a handful of clichés with little character-based substance to speak of.

Hollywood Reporter
pressThe Aeronauts achieves impressive elevation as a bracing and sympathetic account of two early and very different aviators who together reached literal new heights in a perilous field of endeavor.
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