India, March 27 -- Do ordinary people sign up for extraordinary tasks simply for the greater good, despite great personal cost? Eva Stratt (Sandra Huller), leader of the task force behind a space expedition in the recently released Phil Lord and Christopher Miller-directed Project Hail Mary, seems to think it's easier than most would imagine. Dr Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling), however, doesn't really get a choice.

The film's premise draws from the book by Andy Weir, the author of The Martian. When we first meet Grace, he's just gaining consciousness - waking up from a coma with memory loss, he realises his two crewmates are dead, and he's over 11 years away from Earth. Through flashbacks, we find out he's a molecular biologist and schoolte...