Space Station 76
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Space Station 76 |
| Original title | Space Station 76 |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jack plot nic |
| script | Jack Plotnick, Jennifer Elise Cox , Sam Pancake , Kali Rocha , Mike Stoyanov |
| production |
Dan Burks , Joel Michaely , Edward Parks , Rachel Ward |
| music |
Marc Fantini , Steffan Fantini |
| camera | Robert Brinkmann |
| cut | Sharon Rutter |
| occupation | |
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Space Station 76 is an American science fiction film from the year 2014 , the elements of black humor contains.
It is the first film to be directed by Jack Plotnick . He developed the script with the help of a few improvised scenes that he developed at home with his favorite actors.
action
Space Station 76 is also a black comedy, which ostensibly shows idyllic and seemingly intact relationships in its self-dissolution. The action takes place on Omega 76 , a retro-futuristic space station (a kind of truck stop ) in the style of the 1970s.
Jessica comes to the space station and starts her job as a new co-pilot. At first everything seems normal and the team is open and friendly; but she soon realizes that the people on board are struggling with problems such as infidelity, loneliness, depression and substance abuse.
She becomes increasingly angry with the aloof Captain Glenn, who has a secret with him - namely the failed relationship with the previous co-pilot Daniel. She feels attracted to crew member Ted, a lonely-looking father of a seven-year-old daughter ( Sunshine ). Ted, in turn, longs for a revival of his relationship with his wife Misty; she prefers to talk to a small psychiatric robot ( Doctor Bot ) - whose main therapeutic approach seems to consist of prescribing Valium - and also has an affair with Steve. His daughter Sunshine has a hard time with her unhappy, mentally ill mother and also her pet, a gerbil , which eats its young one after the other.
Events come to a head at a scheduled Christmas party when Misty suggests playing the "Truth Game". But just before the envious Misty reveals Jessica's inability to have children in front of everyone, Jessica reveals Glenn's homosexuality. Just when it looks like everything is slipping into disintegration and dispute, an asteroid collides with the station, destroying the shuttle and leaving them all stranded.
While the crew slowly returns to their lives (among others another crew member makes Glenn unexpectedly beautiful eyes), Sunshine withdraws into her room, plays her favorite game by switching off the gravity in the room and then floating in front of the window, lost in thought. In doing so, she looks at a meteoroid shower, the tricky implementation of which is revealed when the camera slides out.
production
The film was an own project of the auteur filmmaker Jack Plotnick, who found the creation of the film “similar to climbing your personal Mount Everest”. With the film, Plotnick wanted to tell the story of his own upbringing, but in an "artistic way, by moving it into the future, as we imagined the future to be and how it would be in the 1970s". Plotnick chose a distant space station as the backdrop for the film because he felt it was a good metaphor for the suburbs, while the aesthetics of that retro future represented the “perfect future” “that we dreamed of but never materialized. "
Liv Tyler joined the cast after she had a lengthy video call (via Skype ) with Plotnick, which she said was "half a Skype session with a director and half a therapy session for me". Tyler was also intrigued by Plotnick's work as an acting teacher and his personal philosophical relation to the job.
The design of the space station bears a striking resemblance to the iconic work of British production designer Keith Wilson (1941–2011), as he introduced them to the science fiction series Moon Base Alpha 1 . Other design peculiarities have been paid to classic films such as Silent in Space and Star Wars .
music
The film's soundtrack features a variety of songs from the 1960s and 1970s, including four songs by Todd Rundgren , Liv Tyler's stepfather.
publication
The film premiered at the SXSW Festival in Austin (Texas) on March 8, 2014 and was shown in selected cinemas from September 19, 2014. The first trailer was published on July 21, 2014. From September 30th of the same year the film could be seen as video-on-demand . In Germany it was released on October 2, 2014 exclusively on DVD.
review
On Rotten Tomatoes , the film received a 65% approval rating based on 23 reviews. On Metacritic , the film received a 49% rating based on 10 reviews.
Variety's Joe Leydon believed the film was more of a confused giggle than a fit of laughter, and that Plotnick and his actors were clever at waking up the 'Me Decade'.
For Peter Osteried from the online film review magazine Kinozeit , Space Station 1976 contains a lot of wasted potential. Despite big names, the characters depicted remained pale, the personal stories uninteresting and the narrative structure bloodless.
The criticism on kino.de sees it as a “nice idea” in today's modern times, in which even probes are sent to Mars, to recycle the “good old SF film of the 70s” almost perfectly. The parodic note is not used excessively here.
Web links
- official website
- Space Station 76 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Space Station 76 . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2014 (PDF; test number: 146 278 V).
- ↑ SXSW Sci-Fi Film 'Space Station 76' Acquired by Sony Pictures Worldwide
- ↑ a b BWW Interviews: Patrick Wilson and Jack Plotnick Talk Quirkiness of Space Station 76
- ↑ a b c Jim Halterman: Jack Plotnick Talks "Space Station 76", Gay & Straight Actors and "Disaster!" . Logo. Retrieved March 28, 2020.
- ↑ a b Christina Radish: Liv Tyler Talks SPACE STATION 76, Working With Director Jack Plotnick, Shooting THE LEFTOVERS, and Her Hopes for Season 2 . Retrieved March 28, 2020.
- ↑ imdb - Music for Space Station 76 . Retrieved March 28, 2020.
- ↑ Video: Patrick Wilson and Liv Tyler revisit the 1970s in 'Space Station 76' , ew.com. July 21, 2014. Accessed March 28, 2020.
- ^ Space Station 76 .
- ^ Space Station 76 (2014): Reviews .
- ↑ Joe Leydon: Film Review: 'Space Station 76' . 17th March 2014.
- ↑ Film review from Kinozeit
- ↑ Film review on kino.de