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    Dark Matter

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    2007     Drama    
    USA
    1h 30min
    R
    Guide for parents: violence, offensive language, sexuality.
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    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA, violence, offensive language, sexuality.
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    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA, violence, offensive language, sexuality.
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    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA, violence, offensive language, sexuality.
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    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA, violence, offensive language, sexuality.
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    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA, violence, offensive language, sexuality.
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    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA, violence, offensive language, sexuality.
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    Guide for parents: Rated R in the USA, violence, offensive language, sexuality.

    DARK MATTER delves into the world of Liu Xing (Chinese for "Shooting Star"), a Chinese science student pursuing a Ph.D. in the U.S. in the early 1990s. Driven by ambition, yet unable to navigate academic politics, Liu Xing is inexorably pushed to the margins of American life, until he loses his way. Liu Xing (Liu Ye) arrives at a big Western university with plans to study the origins of the universe.

    In the beginning, everything is looking up. He finds other Chinese students to share a cheap apartment with him, and flirts with an attractive American girl who works in a local tea shop. When the head of the department, Jacob Reiser (Aidan Quinn), welcomes Liu Xing into his select cosmology group, it seems that only hard work stands between him and a bright future in American science. At an orientation for foreigners sponsored by a local church, Joanna Silver (Meryl Streep), a wealthy patron of the university, notices the earnest student. An unspoken bond forms between them. Liu Xing becomes Reiser's protégé, accompanying him to a prestigious conference where he makes an impressive debut. He is drawn to the study of dark matter, an unseen substance that shapes the universe, but it soon becomes clear that his developing theories threaten the Reiser Model.

    Directed byShi-Zheng Chen
    Written byBilly Shebar
    CompanyFirst Independent PicturesFirst Independent PicturesFirst Independent Pictures

    Starring

    Meryl Streep
    Ye Liu
    Aidan Quinn
    Blair Brown
    Taylor Schilling
    Erick Avari
    + MORE

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