"‘The Space Between Us’ Review: The Fault in Our Planets" Topic

"Although it was ostensibly written by adult men, The Space Between Us comes off like it was penned by a lonely teenage boy at space camp. Rather than sweeping us up into a good-natured young adult romance, Peter Chelsom's film comes off as a constant parade of missed opportunities. What should have been a unique opportunity to capture the majesty of Earth from the viewpoint of one who has only glimpsed it from afar instead becomes a rote road trip movie featuring two leads who have zero chemistry. Far from embracing the richness of our planet, The Space Between Us is as desolate as Mars.

In 2018, scientist Nathaniel Shepherd (Gary Oldman) sends a team of astronauts to Mars to inhabit the red planet for four years. On the journey there, it turns out that one of the astronauts is pregnant. She has the baby on Mars, but dies in childbirth. Nathaniel and the project's other overseers decide to keep the child's existence a secret to prevent a public outcry. Sixteen years later, and the child, Gardner Elliot (Asa Butterfield), is restless and wants to come to Earth so he can find his father and also meet up with the cute girl he's been talking to online, Tulsa (Britt Robertson), who doesn't know he's literally a Martian (she thinks he's a bubble boy living in New York). After a surgical procedure that allows Gardner to walk on Earth, he escapes the medical facility and teams up with Tulsa find his father while Nathaniel and astronaut Kendra (Carla Gugino) try to track down the teens so they can save Elliot from a condition that's developed from his enlarged heart…."
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Maybe they should have called it "Stranger in a Strange Land" and credited Heinlein?

The Green Hills of Earth it ain't. I'll miss thanks