Spaceman (2024)
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- Synopsis:
An intergalactic odyssey of love, ambition, and self-discovery. Orphaned as a boy, raised in the Czech countryside by his doting grandparents, Jakub Procházka (Adam Sandler) has risen from small-time scientist to become the country's first astronaut. When a dangerous solo mission to Jupiter offers him both the chance at heroism he's dreamt of and a way to atone for his father's sins as a Communist informer, he ventures boldly into the vast unknown. But in so doing, he leaves behind his devoted wife, Lenka (Carey Mulligan), whose love, he realizes too late, he has sacrificed on the altar of his ambitions. Alone in Deep Space, Jakub discovers a possibly imaginary giant alien spider, who becomes his unlikely companion. Over philosophical conversations about the nature of love, life and death, and the deliciousness of hazelnut spread, the pair form an intense and emotional bond. - Actors:
- Adam Sandler, Carey Mulligan, Paul Dano, Kunal Nayyar, Isabella Rossellini, Lena Olin, Petr Papánek, Marian Roden, Zuzana Stivínová, Sinead Phelps, Sunny Sandler, John Flanders, Bash Doran, Peter Bláha, Mikulas Cizek, Jessica Bechynová, Sona Beaumont, Kimberly Han, Young Lee, Elke Luyten
- Directors:
- Johan Renck
- Producers:
- Lia Buman, Reid Carolin, Tim Headington, Peter Kiernan, Michael Parets, Max Silva, Channing Tatum
- Writers:
- Jaroslav Kalfar, Colby Day
- Aka:
- Spaceman of Bohemia
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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Reviews (1) of Spaceman
Dull SciFi - Spaceman review by GI
An existential science fiction film that is so drab and uneventful it just seems to drag itself along. The most interesting character is the alien and even it is a tad disappointing. Adam Sandler, certainly a very underrated actor, here in a serious role as Jakub, a Czech astronaut on a solo mission to study a huge particle cloud located near to Jupiter. He's six months in and the mission is taking its toll on him mostly due to the isolation and he longs for his wife back on Earth. He's also been having strange dreams. All these emotional strains culminate in his finding an alien hiding in his ship. This takes the form of a dog sized spider that can talk and basically provides therapy to the intrepid traveller. There's lots of chatter about love, relationships and what it all means etc etc and not much else really. Carey Mulligan as the wife has an underwritten part, although she gives it her all, and the film's littered with Jakub's memories and hallucinatory images from his past mixed up with the present. Of course the alien spider maybe a figment of his imagination and probably is depending how you read the text here. But, for me, this is a tiresome film, trying to be something profound but really it's dull.