Today I will show you a sci-fi, romance, and drama film from 2016, titled "The Passengers"
The interstellar spaceship Avalon can be seen traveling through space, headed to a colonized the world called Homestead 2. All of its quarters are empty, the vessel is on autopilot. The 258 crew members as well as the 5000 passengers are in hibernation. Suddenly, the ship passes through an asteroid belt, that's weakening its shields. Power is diverted to the main shield, but the ship is on a collision course with a giant asteroid. Suddenly, the asteroid collides with the ship, causing various malfunctions. The ship begins self-reparations, but one of the hibernation pods activates. The passenger awakened is Jim Preston, a mechanical engineer. His pod opens an automated system helps with his awakening, telling him that he's spent 120 years in suspended animation and that the ship is only 4 months away from Homestead.
He has been told that he will be able to spend that time enjoying the luxurious aspects of the ship. Jim receives instructions about his ID band, his cabin, and the primary activities he's to take part off, before the arrival on the planet. Excited and nervous to meet the people on the ship, he gets ready, leaves his cabin and walks into an automated class meant for an entire learning group. Jim looks a little anxious, as the hologram explains the situation on Earth, calling it overpopulated, overpriced, and overrated. It tells him to hold his questions to the end of the lesson, but Jim keeps asking why he's the only one there. He realizes that the hologram can't answer him and goes to search for other people. He gets to the main concourse of the ship. No one is there either, but an automated informational desk offers to help.
Jim asks to talk to a real person and it sends him off to talk to a steward, but when he finds that no one is there too, he asks to speak to the captain. When he gets to the bridge, even though he doesn't have access to go inside, he can see that none of the main crew is awake either. Jim eventually goes to the observatory, where he finds out that the ship is 90 years away from Homestead 2. He realizes that he woke up too soon, so he rushes back to the concourse and sends a message back to Earth asking what he should do because he doesn't know how to get back into hibernation. The communications system informs him that the overpriced call to Earth would take approximately 55 years to get an answer. Jim is devastated. He walks around and finds the ship's bar, where he sees another person. As he's talking to the bartender something seems strange about him. When he goes to get him a drink, Jim realizes that he's an android. It's called Arthur. Jim wants to find out more information from him, but he can't even explain it to the android how can be there ahead of time? Jim wakes up in his cabin the next day and goes to the cantina, where he quickly realizes that most of the things on the menu are reserved for gold class passengers only. He gets his plain coffee and tries to figure out how to fix his hibernation chamber. After he gets all the tools, he manages to get it operating and lies down inside of the pod. But nothing happens. Next, he decides to use the tools he found to get into the crew's hibernation chambers. That doesn't work either. Small malfunctions happen around the ship. Jim keeps returning to the bar to drink, but mostly to talk to Arthur. The android gives him some advice, that convinces him to break into one of the gold classrooms and try to have some fun on the ship. Jim tries all the restaurants, the games, and the entertainment system. But as time passes, he becomes even more miserable to be there alone.
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