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Cooper a widow, engineer and ex-astronaut lives on a farm with daughter, son and father in law. The film is set in the near future on an Earth beset by climate change. Crops are failing, the atmosphere is breaking down and humans are on course for extinction, as the planet will no longer be able to support human life within a generation or two.

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Extreme weather and dangerous dust storms are common.

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Cooper's daughter Murphy keeps finding patterns in the dust on her bedroom floor. She thinks it is a ghost. Cooper thinks there must be a scientific reason for it. They work together to solve the puzzle, realising that the pattern is binary code and points them towards some coordinates on a local map.

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When they reach the location on the map all they find is a derelict building. However it is not as it seems. Security guards take them into an underground complex that is actually what is left of the space programme NASA. (The government of the future feels it must hide the fact that they are spending on space travel when billions of people across the world are starving). Once arrested and inside, Cooper and Murphy meet Professor Brand (Cooper's old teacher) and his scientist daughter Dr Amelia Brand. They learn that there is a space mission planned to find other habitable planets and save humankind. Cooper is asked to be the pilot. Murphy is distraught and does not want her father to leave.

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Plan A means Cooper will be able to see his family again and the people on Earth can be saved. Plan A involves Cooper transmitting quantum data back to Earth in order to develop a gravitational propulsion theory that will allow spacecrafts to carry people off Earth into the other galaxy.

Plan B means Cooper will never see his family again and everyone on Earth will die. Plan B involves Cooper’s crew finding the remaining Lazarus crew and establishing a colony on another world. They have thousands of frozen human embryo on board and can begin a repopulation programme if they find a suitable planet to sustain life.

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This part of the film is pure science fiction. The crew (including Cooper and Dr Amelia Brand) travel into space where they journey through a 'wormhole' which means they can traverse through time and space into other galaxies. Time changes as they do, slowing down for them the closer they get to a black hole. (For example every hour they spend on a planet should be the equivalent of seven years back home on Earth).

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They are tasked with visiting several planets where previous astronauts have journeyed to collect data. They must find out if any of the planets are suitable to support human life. Each planet has a station and there is valuable scientific data to collect. It is not clear if the astronauts on each of these planets is still alive. The first watery planet they visit is uninhabitable and there is no one left there alive. Amelia and Cooper nearly die in a massive tidal surge and lose 22 years worth of time on a journey that was futile.

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When they get back to the spacecraft Cooper watches  decades worth of messages from his family. His kids have grown up, his father in law has died, his son has had children and his grandson has died due to the conditions back on Earth. There is only one message from Murphy. Distraught at being abandoned she has refused to ever speak to Cooper. Her one and only message is on the birthday that she turned the same age as Copper was when he left Earth.

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Because they wasted 22 years on the watery planet, they now only have enough fuel to go to one other planet - they must choose. Mr Mann's or Dr Edmond's planet. Cooper convinces Amelia Brand that she is being biased and only wants to go to Dr Edmond's planet because he was her boyfriend. Dr Brand is convinced the science gives Dr Edmond's planet better statistical odds. Cooper prefers Dr Mann's planet because he sees a greater chance of getting home to see his kids from there. On Dr Mann's icy planet - the station is still functioning and Dr Mann is alive. However, he has lied about the data - leading them to believe it is potentially habitable in hopes of being rescued. The planet is not fit for human life. Dr Mann tricks and tries to kill Cooper, then escapes onto the spacecraft to complete the mission without them.

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Meanwhile on Earth, Murphy has grown up under the mentorship of Dr Brand and is now a talented NASA scientist. On his deathbed, Dr Brand admits to Murphy that he never had a Plan A. His physics equation does not work and there was never any way for the mission to transmit data back to Earth or to save the humans living there. Cooper was never going to be able to come home. Dr Brand has lied. Neither Cooper or his own daughter knew he was lying. He sacrificed them to save the human species. Plan B was all they ever had. In that moment, Murphy realises her father did not deliberately abandon her.

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Cooper and Murphy survive Dr Mann's attack and betrayal. They manage to safely return to the spacecraft. There, they decide to try to send TARS (the AI robot) back through the wormhole in an attempt to transmit the data back to Earth. Meanwhile Amelia Brand will journey to the third planet (Dr Edmond's planet) to begin Plan B - starting a colony to save the human race. At the last minute, Cooper decides to take a risk and follows TARS into the wormhole.

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Within the wormhole, Cooper finds a confusing space where five dimensions are represented as three, and gravity and time are fluid. He looks through the spaces and can see Murphy's bedroom through the bookcase. He realises that the 'ghost' communicating and sending coded messages to Murphy before he left was actually him trying communicate with her (in another time and dimension). With TAR's help he manages to encode the NASA coordinates and finally the data needed to allow Murphy to solve Dr Brand's theory and get the people of Earth to safety. Cooper realises that he is being helped by the human race of the future and that time is not what we know it to be.

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Murphy discovers that the code needed to save humanity is in the watch that sat on her bookshelf when the 'ghost' was trying communicate with her. She uses it to solve Dr Brand's equation and save humankind.

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Cooper travels back through the wormhole and is found driving in space near a space station by Saturn nearly 100 years into the future. He is taken on board a space colony named Cooper Station. It is named after his daughter who is now famous for saving humankind and is very old and nearing the end of her life. Cooper is still the same age he was when he left. On her deathbed, Murphy tells him to go and find Dr Amelia Brand and start a life on a new planet.

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The closing scene is of Amelia Brand on a planet that looks hospitable, setting up a base and beginning anew.