Tribeca Review: Kyle Allen & Kevin Bacon In Director Kyra Sedgwick’s ‘Space Oddity’
deadline.comBlasting 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 and family intervene on his plans.
If that premise sounds improbable, it actually is the kind of thing that seems to be popping up lately as fodder for various indie-centric film festivals.
Earlier this year at SXSW, we saw comedian Jim Gaffigan in Linoleum, where he plays a father and husband whose lifelong dream of being an astronaut takes flight when he builds a rocket ship in his garage to do just that.
Like Space Oddity, which comes from Kyra Sedgwick directing a Black List script by Rebecca Banner, that film focused on the rather offbeat behavior of its central character, much to the chagrin of his family.Kyle Allen 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.
Read more on deadline.com