In Kristian Mercado’s feature debut premiering at SXSW, the actors play a pair of astronauts lost in space and caught in a burgeoning love affair.
Written by Angela Bourassa, the high-concept story is purposely low-fi from the start, revealing how Adam and Jane , two highly trained space explorers, are stuck aboard a floating ship whose interior resembles an oversized college dorm suite. With nothing much to do but watch old 80s movies, exercise, water the oxygen-providing plants and eat a dwindling supply of Pop Tarts, the two grow inevitably closer as they realize there’s little hope of them ever making it back to Earth.
Both Adam and Jane are also happily married, but they’ve been adrift for three years and it may finally be time to move on. The tension between them is initially at a low simmer, until Adam proposes they have sex for health purposes — an idea Jane rejects at first, until she realizes he may be onto something.
When the astronauts finally do it, the filmmakers toss in a predictable but welcome twist that will bring them back home to face the lives they thought to be leaving behind. It’s at that point thatgets a little serious, which is better than when it was trying to be funny, questioning how you deal with your loved ones when you’re not in love anymore, even as the entire world is expecting you to be happily reunited.
Mackie and Chao are good in those late scenes, which are at least about something. All the shuttle-set stuff is, on the other hand, a little silly and childish, with the two actors seemingly having lots of fun as their characters dance the tango, get down to Lionel Richie and, eventually, get down and dirty. That doesn’t mean, however, that it’s fun to watch them doing these things, and many of the jokes float off into space without ever landing anywhere.
Indeed, the film’s highlight is probably the set itself, which is about as far from a real spaceship, and as close to an Ikea store, as you can get. In that sense
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