Probably one of the strangest movies I have seen in a while but still I liked it. It is not, however, in any way a comedy as advised I could barely find a laugh myself.
The film was full on retro 70's sci-fi and looked its age it could have been Space 1999 or UFO two early 70s TV shows fairly popular. From a dumpy looking shuttle to a space station looked like something made on ‘Blue Peter’. It was like being transported back to the seventies.
With all of the characters struggling with their own problems none of which are resolve it felt like the first episode of a TV series.
Led by moustached, boozy captain Glenn (Patrick Wilson), an alcoholic sexist. He is deep in the closet, which explains why he grimaces all the time and snaps at people. He promoted his last second-in-command to a plum job so suddenly that the whole station speculated on his motives.
The rest of the station’s inhabitants are a dysfunctional bunch. The strained marriage of mechanic Ted (Matt Bomer) and nutritionist Misty (Marisa Coughlan) is compounded by the latter’s horrid parenting skills with their daughter Sunshine (Kylie Rogers), and by her not-so-clandestine affair with Steve (Jerry O’Connell), a new father who has married to the materialistic Donna (Kali Rocha).
The close-quarters conflict is exacerbated by the arrival of Jessica (Liv Tyler), whose position as co-pilot threatens the chauvinistic Glenn, and who soon finds herself drawn to—and subtly wooed by—the unhappy Ted.
Be it Ted and Jessica bonding over his secret stash of marijuana (which he grows in the greenhouse quarters), or Misty venting her frustrations and unhappiness to a therapist robot that dispenses nothing but stock clichés based on keywords she speaks. Ted may not be getting any bedroom action but she is getting her fair share from Steve, a horny man-boy poor, while Ted is left to knock one out in frustration.
Yes, the movie is on a very tight budget and the sets are cheesy at best, but hey, it is portrayed in the 70s and it supposed to look that way. The script is pretty good and well written.
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