![]() Curtis is a little too eager to leave Earth and easily could be a co-founder of the whole farce. This isn’t helped by Alex’s Skype friendship with disgruntled suburban dad and fellow Mission Mars member Curtis (Andrew Polk) which makes the whole thing…suspicious. Instead, Mission Mars is a vague concept that may or may not be a scam, and soon “Space Oddity” seems to hint that Alex is living in a “Truman Show”-esque delusional construct built from the trauma of surviving a car accident that killed his older brother, Tom (the name is important, annoyingly so). ![]() ![]() No, not Elon Musk’s SpaceX program or Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, both name-dropped in the film. “Space Oddity” stars Kyle Allen (“West Side Story”) as Alexander McAllister, a man (not a teenager, although his maturity level and young Jason Ritter-slash-Heath Ledger boyish charm direct otherwise) preparing to leave Earth on Mission Mars, an esteemed space-age venture led by a wealthy private company. Or show and tell, a concept that the second graders in “ Space Oddity,” Kyra Sedgwick’s directorial debut, seem to grasp very well onscreen, unlike the script of this film. From a young age, we’re told to show, not tell. ![]()
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