The Adventures of Pluto Nash story
The Adventures of Pluto Nash is a 2002 American science fiction action comedy film directed by Ron Underwood. Synopsis: The retired smuggler Pluto Nash gets into trouble with the mafia after refusing to sell his wildly popular nightclub on the Moon.
21 total · 6 major · 15 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| a person and their clone | major | The film culminated with a classic confrontation between Pluto Nash and his evil, monster clone Rex Crater. |
| colonization of the Moon | major | The story is set in the year 2080 on a colony on the Moon called Little America. |
| entrepreneurship | major | Much was made of the smuggler-turned-entrepreneur Pluto Nash making a success of his newly purchased dilapidated nightclub on the Moon. |
| human cloning | major | A grand revelation of the film was that the mobster Rex Crater was none other than Pluto Nash's clone. Tony had cloned his beautiful wife and was totally uninterested in which of the pair was the real article. |
| organized crime | major | The plot surrounded Pluto Nash coming into conflict with the mafia after he refused to sell the mobster Rex Crater his popular nightclub on the Moon. |
| what if I met my double | major | The film culminated with a classic confrontation between Pluto Nash and his evil, monster clone Rex Crater. |
| android | minor | Pluto Nash had an obsolete, but loyal android bodyguard named Bruno. |
| bribery | minor | Pluto Nash called out Dr. Mona Zimmer for accepting his bribe to overlook that he and Dina didn't have the proper papers needed to undergo cosmetic surgery. |
| celebrity worship | minor | The small time smuggler Felix Laranga was a big fan of Pluto Nash. He had Pluto sign his helmet, and blew Pluto's cover at the hotel/casino by informing everyone within earshot that Pluto was in the room. |
| cryogenic technology | minor | Pluto examined a cryogenically freeze dried chihuahua. |