Blasting off Sunday evening at the Tribeca Festival, Space Oddity, is a small character-driven dramedy of one young man’s odd life-altering plan to take a one way ticket to Mars just as love …
stars as Alex McAllister, who announces he will be leaving his family and their flower-growing farm in order to do an eight year training program to prepare for a one way trip to Mars where he plans to colonize for the rest of his life.
This being a low budget indie entertprise you can be assured special visual effects are never needed to the point that say, Ridley Scott got with Matt Damon inNo, this is all played out with cinematic modesty as a family affair and budding love story involving a guy whose simply stated career plans are very much colored by events in his past, and a feeling that things might be better in outer space, seemingly far from the sometimes rocky road of life on Earth.
Allen is nicely cast and effective here even if the character’s obsessive and dogged determination to go permanently to Mars started rubbing on my nerves the same way it does on everyone else around him. Shipp is an absolutely lovely and welcome presence, so much so you wonder how Alex can even still think of leaving her behind. Preston is excellent as always, as is the feisty Brewer.
and he is all-pro here while adding some needed name recognition to help get the film strong distribution. My guess isis most likely to find the latter on a streamer or VOD release since can be a tougher sell as it is for all films on this smaller scale in the competitive theatrical market. Wherever it lands it is well worth checking out, ultimately a film that makes you feel pretty good, despite shades of gray, about the life we are already living.
Producers are Valerie Stadler, Meredith Bagby, Richard Arlook, Jack Greenbaum, Mark Maxey, Mickey Schiff, and Sedgwick. The film which also has some very pertinent things to say about our climate change crisis in the course of the story, comes from Big Swing Productions in association with Rei Co-Op Studios which focuses on projects with strong environmental themes, and also The Arlook Group and Rolling Pictures.
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