Passenger: Welcome onboard the Avalon.

This 2016 Science Fiction Romance film 'Passengers' was directed by Morten Tyldum and written by Jon Spaihts. Such a movie is partially based on the 1950s EC Comics story '50 Girls 50'. The Science Fiction stars Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt, with Michael Sheen and Laurence Fishburne in supporting roles. The plot of the story depicts 2 people who are awaken 90 years early from an induced hibernation on a spaceship that is transporting 1000s of passengers to a colony on a planet in a star system 60 light years from Earth.

Plot

The Avalon is a sleeper ship that is transporting 5,000 colonists and 258 crew members in hibernation pods travelling to a planet called Homestead II from earth. The journey lasting 120 years. 30 years into the journey the ship collides with an asteroid resulting in a malfunction that awakens one passenger 90 years too early his name is James Jim Preston who is a professional Mechanical Engineer.

After a year of isolation with only the robot Arthur for company Jim ends up becoming depressed and thought of committing suicide until he notices a beautiful young woman named Aurora Lane inside her pod. He fell in love with her. After struggling with morality he awakens her anyway letting her believe that her pod also malfunctioned. Jim asks the robot Arthur to keep the secret that he woke her up. Aurora devastated at having to live out her life on the ship attempts to re-enter hibernation but has unsuccessful attempts. Resigned to the situation, Aurora who is a journalist begins writing a book about her experience.

Next year Jim and Aurora slowly grow closer and end up falling in love. Jim intends to propose to Aurora but after Arthur hears Jim says that there are "no secrets" between Aurora and him, Arthur inadvertently reveals the truth to her. Aurora shocked and devastated rejects Jim's pleas for forgiveness and avoids any contact with him.

Afterwards Chief Deck Officer Gus Mancuso pod also fails and wakes him up. He finds out that there are multiple failures throughout the ship's systems but the computer systems on the ship does not reveal what is causing them. If the failures are not fixed the mission to go to planet homestead II will fail and all the hibernating passengers and crew on the ship will die. Gus tries to repair the ship with Jim and Aurora's help but he soon falls ill, due to failures of his pod's life support. The Autodoc, the ship's automated medical diagnostics and treatment pod, reveals that Gus has hours to live. Before dying Gus gives Jim and Aurora authorization to access crew only areas and to repair the ship.

Jim and Aurora discover a series of hull breaches from the asteroid collision two years earlier. The computer module administering the fusion reactor powering the ship has been critically damaged, causing the ship's cascading malfunctions as all of the other systems divert computing power towards trying to maintain the reactor. Jim and Aurora replace the damaged module, but when the computer attempts to vent the reactor to extinguish a runaway plasma reaction, the exterior vent hatch fails. Jim is forced to spacewalk and vent the plasma from outside using the manual hatch controls within the vent tube. A malfunction forces Jim to stay within the tube to manually keep the hatch open while Aurora initiates the venting from inside the ship. She admits being terrified of losing Jim and being left alone. Jim uses a door as a shield but is blasted out into space and his tether snaps. His damaged spacesuit loses oxygen, and he falls unconscious. Aurora manages to retrieve a clinically dead Jim from space and resuscitate him in the Autodoc while the Avalon, its reactor repaired, returns to normal operations.

Afterwards, Jim learns that the Autodoc can function as a makeshift hibernation pod for one person. He can put Aurora back in hibernation for the remainder of the voyage and offers her the chance to make it to Homestead II and live her desired life, willing to become alone again to do so. Realizing that she would never see Jim again, Aurora chooses to remain awake with Jim, and he presents her with the ring he had made, which she accepts.

Eighty-eight years later, the ship's crew is awakened on schedule, shortly before arrival at Homestead II. In the ship's grand concourse area they discover a huge tree, many trailing vines, much vegetation, birds flying, and a cabin. Aurora's voice-over is reading her story, describing the wonderful life she and Jim had together on the Avalon.