A man who suffers visions of an apocalyptic deluge takes measures to protect his family from the coming flood.
Direction
Aronofsky treats Genesis like a psychological horror script.
Practical Effects
They BUILT a full-scale ark. Method filmmaking for the apocalypse.
Acting
Russell Crowe sells 'religious obsessive' terrifyingly well.
Director
Darren Aronofsky
Russell Crowe
Noah
Jennifer Connelly
Naameh
Ray Winstone
Tubal-cain
Anthony Hopkins
Methuselah
Emma Watson
Ila
Logan Lerman
Ham
Douglas Booth
Shem
Nick Nolte
Samyaza (voice)
Mark Margolis
Magog (voice)
Kevin Durand
Rameel (voice)
Leo McHugh Carroll
Japheth
Marton Csokas
Lamech
Finn Wittrock
Young Tubal-cain
Madison Davenport
Na'el
Gavin Casalegno
Young Shem
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Aronofsky co-wrote a graphic novel version years earlier; the film's rock monsters (Watchers) come directly from that, blending Genesis with Jewish mysticism's Nephilim lore.
The film sparked massive religious controversy, but Aronofsky intended it as the 'least Biblical Biblical film ever'—a midrash, not literal adaptation, which explains Noah's near-infanticide.
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