
SPOILER: Seventeen year-old Rhoda Williams receives an acceptance letter from MIT and she celebrates with her friends. On the same night, a planet similar and close to Earth is discovered and called Earth 2. Rhoda drives her car looking at Earth 2 and crashes with composer John Burroughs, killing his pregnant wife and his baby son. Rhoda goes to prison and four years later she is released and moves to her parents' house. She finds a job as high-school janitor, but tries to co... (Full plot summary below)
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SPOILER: Seventeen year-old Rhoda Williams receives an acceptance letter from MIT and she celebrates with her friends. On the same night, a planet similar and close to Earth is discovered and called Earth 2. Rhoda drives her car looking at Earth 2 and crashes with composer John Burroughs, killing his pregnant wife and his baby son. Rhoda goes to prison and four years later she is released and moves to her parents' house. She finds a job as high-school janitor, but tries to commit suicide. She survives, however, and submits an essay to a contest where the prize is a ticket to travel to Earth 2. Meanwhile the scientists discover that Earth 2 is a mirror of Earth and the synchronicity between the dwellers was interrupted when the planets were seen by each other. One day, Rhoda decides to visit John Burroughs, whose life was destroyed after the death of his family, to admit to him that she had killed his family. However she does not have the nerve to tell him the truth. So she lies and tells him he has won a free cleaning service of his home. Rhoda wins the writing contest, but meanwhile John and she have fallen in love with each other. Rhoda has to take a decision whether she goes or stays, but she wants to tell John the truth first.
Leave your thoughts about Another Earth.
| Boxoffice MagazineRay GreeneWhat I can say is if you're flesh and blood, and have ever suffered a substantial loss, you will be moved by Another Earth. And also renewed. |
| Chicago ReaderJ. R. JonesNot since Shane Carruth's Primer has a sci-fi movie done so much with so little. |
| Boston HeraldJames VerniereFew feature film debuts, especially no-budget, shaky-cam ones, start out with as much throat-grabbing urgency as 'Another Earth.' |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertWhat's impressive is how well this film joins its parts into a whole. |
| Television Without PityEthan AlterAnother Earth ignores the fascinating sociological, political and scientific implications...and instead treats it as an extended metaphor in an aggravatingly melodramatic plot. |
| USA TodayClaudia PuigAnother Earth proves compellingly that science, intellect and emotion can coexist in mesmerizing synchronicity on the big screen. |
| New York TimesManohla DargisA coming-of-adulthood story that improbably blends a plaintive drama with romantic longing and far-out science fiction. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanIt's one of those stultifying aftermath-of- a-car-crash movies. |
| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenA low-budget sci-fi that lucidly explores the emotions of a man and a woman who grow from suffering loss to expressing forgiveness. |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris HewittPretentious twaddle that's tough to sit through but does provoke thought. |