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Apr 24, 2020 · To the Stars. 109 minutes ‧ NR ‧ 2020. Tomris Laffly. April 24, 2020. 4 min read. It’s hard out there for Maggie Richmond (Liana Liberato), the feisty new girl in a sleepy and deeply conservative Oklahoma town of the early 1960s.
To the Stars is a 2019 American drama film directed by Martha Stephens from a screenplay by Shannon Bradley-Colleary. It stars Kara Hayward , Liana Liberato , Shea Whigham , Jordana Spiro , Lucas Jade Zumann , Adelaide Clemens , Malin Åkerman and Tony Hale .
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It’s fair to say Ad Astra lies at the highbrow end of the sci-fi spectrum. It may come with a side of big explosions and space monkeys, but this is an introspective tale of loss and loneliness. To get to that, you need to look past the blockbuster tropes – not to mention some pretty bogus (or strategic?) marketing. Not only does the trailer feature...
Ad astra, Latin for “to the stars”, is a big clue to the film’s thematic destination. Most obviously, the story revolves around Roy’s voyage to Neptune to find his dad. However, that journey has striking parallels with finding a “father in heaven”, and mirrors Clifford’s own obsessions with touching God. Variations of the phrase also appear in mott...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that films which put a journey front and centre of the plot are never just about that journey. Movie voyages are tools of transformation: it’s not just the landscape that changes, but the protagonists. The Fly has a great spin on this, btw. As you’d expect, then, there are a couple of journeys in Ad Astra. Fir...
After three decades of being utterly alone, it’s very likely Clifford McBride is quite mad. After all, he kills his crew because they want to stop searching and go home. In fact, Clifford’s insanity is driven by a very different kind of isolation. Project Lima was the first crewed expedition to the outer solar system, an offshoot of humanity’s comp...
Roy and Clifford are looking for what’s lost. In their own ways, each is searching for a father figure, only to be disappointed. Meh, it’s not as bleak as it sounds. More significantly, it’s one of myriad ways these characters mirror each other. When they leave Earth, the curiously decrepit Colonel Pruitt (Donald Sutherland) confides that men like ...
How else are Roy and Clifford twinned characters? Clearly, both are astronauts, self-absorbed, and emotionally unavailable; both abandon their wives. Both work on the same project, 30 years apart. So far, so obvious. However note also: 1. Roy boarding the SOS craft to find it full of dead astronauts foreshadows his arrival on Lima. 2. Similarly, Cl...
Of course Ad Astra works exactly as we see it unfold. It’s a fantastical story grounded in the realism of physics and space travel. Well, kinda. There’s no end of rebuttals to the film’s science, including tweets by Neil Tyson. Still, essentially it’s a story about two men who go to the edge of the solar system, and only one comes back. The End. … ...
If Ad Astra is a fever dream, that might explain the monkeys. On their own, however, they don’t necessarily suggest delusion, because there’s a plausible reason for their being in the plot. Simply put, the electrical surge knocks out the craft’s power, releasing the vengeful baboons. Story of my life. Either way, the monkeys are symbols of rage and...
Gravity (space, grief, falling to Earth)To the Stars is available to watch free on Kanopy. It's also available to stream, download and buy on demand at Hulu, Amazon Prime, Apple TV Channels, Starz, The Roku Channel, Apple TV, Amazon and Vudu.
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- Kara Hayward, Jordana Spiro, Tina Parker
- Martha Stephens
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To The Stars Inc., [1] formerly known as To The Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences Inc., is a San Diego-based company co-founded by Tom DeLonge (guitarist of Blink-182 and Angels & Airwaves), Harold E. Puthoff (engineer), and Jim Semivan (retired CIA senior intelligence officer).
