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Plot Summary
Welcome to a 1970s’ version of the future, where the pants are wide, the music is groovy, and the new frontier is interplanetary. When a new assistant captain (Liv Tyler) arrives on the Omega 76, tensions spark, and more than asteroids collide. This smart and quirky film-festival favorite stars Patrick Wilson, Jerry O’Connell and Matt Bomer. Take a journey on an out-of-this-world adventure.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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61%- Reviews Counted: 18
- Fresh: 11
- Rotten: 7
- Average Rating: 5.7/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Rotten: A protracted, scattershot comedy sketch that never quite nails its tone.
Fresh: With the aid of ensemble players who maintain admirably straight faces amid the absurdity, director Jack Plotnick gets an impressive amount of mileage from a concept that might seem at first blush barely adequate to sustain a Saturday Night Live sketch.
Fresh: "Space Station 76" stretches every penny, from the curving white walls of the station to the men's wide-collared shirts, but it also demonstrates the kind of talentand determination that no amount of money can buy a filmmaker who doesn't have them.
Customer Reviews
Sad and depressing
Having grown up in the 70's as a child I did recognize many of the references to other iconic 70's SciFi but that alone did not save this movie. I truly wanted to like this movie, but in the end it just left me sad and depressed. It did capture many of the problems I remember seeing with relationships and pop-therapy and child rearing. I will say the acting was well done but the overall tone left me wanting it to end.
Beautiful, funny, charming, smart…
Don’t expect Anchorman in Space and it’s not for everyone but,…this is a surprisingly heady dark drama/comedy that perfectly encapsulates my childhood love for 70’s sic-fi. All my favorite movies are there…Silent Running, Logan’s Run, Space:1999 and a touch of 2001 (from the 60’s I know) but so much love was given in the making of this thing.
Slow and Pointless
I should have paid more attention to the review by DesertMP351. I thought the idea of a retro-70s SF comedy was cool, but there was no comedy and the film just meandered along at a slow pace to a pointless ending. I think the filmmakers had good intentions for making a message movie, but it just didn’t work.
