So this guy named Sam has a three year contract to work for this company on the moon. For the whole contract, he is the only person at their lunar station. His primary job responsibility is to harvest and periodically rocket back to Earth supplies of helium-3, the current clean and abundant fuel used on Earth. There is no direct communication link available between the lunar station and Earth, so his only real interactions are with GERTY , the intelligent computer (voiced by Kevin Spacey) whose function is to attend to his day to day needs.
Towards the end he is beginning to hallucinate as the end of his three years approaches. All he wants is to return to Earth to be with his wife Tess and his baby daughter Eve, who was born just prior to him leaving. With two weeks left, he gets into an accident at one of the mechanical harvesters and is rendered unconscious. Injured, he wakes up back at the station in the infirmary, he assumes assisted by GERTY. At this time GERTY tells him that a rescue team is heading to the station to fix the harvester.
While he is recuperating, he is beginning to get more and more paranoid, especially when the computer won't allow him to go outside anymore. He eventually breaks something and fakes an accident so the computer will let him outside. Instead of doing the fake repairs, he heads to the broken harvester and finds a body inside. He drags it back to the base and to the infirmary. And lo and behold, guess who it is? Yep, it's him.
So now the old Sam thinks he is just imagining the new Sam. The new Sam wonders where the other came from if he was supposed to be alone up there. As they have "conversations" you're not sure if you're watching insanity or reality. Old Sam becomes convinced he is a clone while new Sam scours the base for a secret room that contains "extra people". In his paranoia, old Sam swears he hears GERTY having a live conversation with someone on Earth. During this time, old Sam's health has been deteriorating badly. As he's trying to prove he was right about GERTY, he actually finds the missing room the new Sam was looking for. They go down there together only to discover...they are both clones. The room is filled with Sam clones.
Then they start to figure out what is going on. They realize they are purposely being left in the dark and without communications and since GERTY was having a conversation with someone, everything must be operational. They each head out in their lunar truck things and go way past the boundary of the base. They discover that there are radar jammers encircling the whole encampment. Old Sam takes out a radio and gets a connection to Earth where he tries to call his wife. A 15 year old Eve answers, and said her mom had died a few years ago. At that point he hears his own voice in the background...
Back at the base they realize that at the end of the three year contract the clone dies (or is killed). Either way he never makes it home, a new one just replaces him. Apparently they've gone through this cycle five times already. Problem is, they both know now and they realize that the maintenance crew that's coming is actually on the way to kill them also. Old Sam is sick and close the death anyway. With the assistance of GERTY (who only wanted to help them), they form a plan for new Sam to escape in those shipments they shoot back to Earth.
GERTY gets a fresh clone out to be awakened as soon as new Sam leaves. New Sam drives the old, now dying Sam back to the harvester and places him back inside, where he loses consciousness. Before new Sam gets in with the cargo, he programs the harvesters to drive over the radar jammers so the next clone (and subsequent ones) won't have to go through what they did. Re-establishing contact and exposing the lies.
New Sam takes off, just as the maintenance team lands. Old Sam regains consciousness just long enough to see new Sam streaking overhead, heading towards the home he will never return to...
And that's how it ends. It's a good movie, but I would have to be in the right mood to watch it again.
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