Director Peter Chelsom’s The Space Between Us is some
kind of wonderful.
Writer Allan Loeb’s script, from a story by him, Stewart
Schill and Richard Barton Lewis is a delightful fantasy about a boy (Asa
Butterfield) whose astronaut mother (Janet Montgomery) dies in childbirth, after
landing on Mars as part of a team, initially scheduled to live on the planet
for 4 years.
Because of P.R. implications, the head of the program
(Gary Oldman) keeps the boy’s birth secret for 16 years. But, when the precocious teen finds a way to
chat via Internet with a young woman (Britt Robertson) in Tulsa, he pleads to
visit Earth and, once here, escapes to see her and try to find his father.
The film works, primarily, because of the excellent
casting of Butterfield and Robertson, who make an endearing couple.
Chelsom and Editor David Moritz move the actions along,
briskly, Production Designer Kirk M. Petruccelli has created wonderful Martian and
spaceship sets and Cinematographer Barry Peterson has captured fabulous images
as the young couple fleas authorities across the American southwest.
If you can accept that this is a fantasy, you’ll
thoroughly enjoy this unique romance.
If you’re not delighted, that’s okay. I’ll just feel sad for you.
I give The Space Between Us a 4 out of 5.
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