“Interstellar,” released Nov. 5, is a new sci-fi film that goes above and beyond whatever was expected for sci-fi movies before. Interstellar incorporates such an interesting and unique plot that it makes you want to cry and scream at the screen at the same time.

“Interstellar” takes place in the future, where crop blight is slowly eating away at civilization, causing it to regress to a failing farming society. NASA discovers a worm hole located near Saturn, and sends three astronauts, Miller, Mann and Edmund to go in search for planets that could serve as a new home for Earth’s population. They dub these the “Lazarus missions.”  Unfortunately, the astronauts never return home.

Enter Cooper, played by Matthew McConaughey, a widowed farmer with two kids. He is particularly close with his daughter Murphy. She insists there is a ghost in the house and Cooper, a former pilot and engineer for NASA, tells her to figure it out using code and math. (This is totally relevant later in the movie, promise.)

Cooper meets Professor John Brand, one of the leaders in these “Lazarus missions.” Brand reveals that data was (miraculously) sent back from the wormhole to NASA with information about three possible planets, named after the astronauts, which may sustain life. He, along with Brand’s daughter Amelia (played by the lovely Anne Hathaway), scientists Romilly and Doyle, and the robots TARS and CASE, will enter the wormhole and retrieve information about these planets.

Unfortunately becoming a pilot again and going on this mission means that Cooper must leave his kids. Murphy is devastated when Cooper departs. This is one of the most heartbreaking scenes in the whole film. The acting was phenomenal, especially from McConaughey. Trust me when I say it’s hard not to cry in this scene; the man next to me in the movie theater was sobbing.

The rest of the film shows the perils and disasters these astronauts have at every turn in search for these planets. The plot twists were incredible — I did not see them coming at all. They will leave you with a lot of pain deep in your chest, tears in your eyes (or some mist) and just a sense of wow-what-just-happened. What really pulled at the heart strings in this film was how due to how fast time passes in space, Cooper watches his kids grow up and age through video messages. He watches his kids’ lives fly right past him while he remains the same.

   The only downside to this movie is when Cooper gets sucked into a black hole appropriately named Gargantua. He gets sent into a place where time is not linear, somehow. In this scene, the plot gets a bit confusing. There’s time travel. There’s a lot of physics and mathematical terminology in this film, but once you get past all the wordiness it becomes so incredible and surreal and amazing. You have not seen sci-film films until you have seen “Interstellar.”