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Another Earth [Blu-ray]

William Mapother , Brit Marling , Mike Cahill    Suitable for 12 years and over   Blu-ray
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
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  • Actors: William Mapother, Brit Marling, Jordan Baker, Flint Beverage, Robin Taylor
  • Directors: Mike Cahill
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Italian, Japanese, Swedish, Norwegian
  • Dubbed: French, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese
  • Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired: English
  • Audio Description: English
  • Region: Region B/2 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 2 April 2012
  • Run Time: 88 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B006TFT0LK
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 7,237 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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Another Earth is an unusual hybrid of existential rumination on life choices, mind-bending sci-fi supposition, and challenging indie art film that moves at a pace that is often maddeningly oblique. Based on the marketing campaign, which plays up the science-fiction angle and special effects (of which there are very few, consisting mainly of offhand composite shots), the movie seems to be trawling for an audience that may be sorely disappointed by all the roundabout and often repetitive philosophically conceptual ideas that are hard to follow. That's not to say that Another Earth isn't rich in ideas or absorbing in its own right as a meditation on how specific moments play out and affect the cascade of alternatives that follow in their wake. Using broadly impressionistic and experimental strokes, the story follows the disjointed meanderings of 17-year-old Rhoda, who causes a tragic accident while driving drunk after celebrating her acceptance into college. The collision happens when she becomes distracted by the mesmerising planetary image glowing above her car's moon roof, which has just been identified as an exact duplicate of Earth. After four years of incarceration, she continues to suffer terrible remorse and tries to find a way to make peace with herself and the older man whose life and family she all but destroyed, and who is now crippled by depression. Her initial self-imposed penance is to adopt the role of an anonymous maid who comes to clean his decrepit house every week. As precious few details are added to their individual and mutual evolution and motivation, the constant of the alternate Earth, which has been steadily moving closer (along with its mirror-image Moon), hovers in the day and night sky, gazed upon with wonder and a growing idea that maybe it represents the redemption Rhoda can't find on her own. A corporate contest that will allow an ordinary citizen to make a shuttle trip to Earth 2 (or is it Earth 1?) becomes the catalyst for her belief that she can fundamentally alter both their lives for the better, but the movie never shows its hand in how or if this might work. Another Earth is another of those high-minded indie dramas that relies a little too heavily on rambling structure, shaky handheld digital camera, and arty shots of things like the play of light, clouds, and swirling dust motes to convey the corners of its characters' sometimes fascinating, sometimes inscrutable souls. Much has been made of the film's final shot, which is truly stunning in its unexpectedness and implications. But what those implications are will be cause for unending debate among viewers, many of who may never be able to come up with a satisfying answer. --Ted Fry

Product Description

In Another Earth, Rhoda Williams (Marling), a bright young woman accepted into MIT's astrophysics program, aspires to explore the cosmos. A brilliant composer, John Burroughs (Mapother), has just reached the pinnacle of his profession and is about to have a second child. On the eve of the discovery of a duplicate Earth, tragedy strikes and the lives of these strangers become irrevocably intertwined.

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30 of 34 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Thoughtful 12 Dec 2011
Format:DVD
I am not convinced if this is an Indie Sci Fi film or an Indie film with a bit of Sci Fi chucked in. If you just like your Sci Fi to be lasers, explosions and scientists driving around shouting at NASA on speakerphone this is certainly not for you.

The story is that another Earth (or Earth II as it is dubbed) appears in the sky. A girl who is drunk and driving is looking at it out of her car window crashes and wipes out a family. It then turns into a slow paced indie film about people dealing with their feelings in a well done but not massively original way with one moment of supreme pretentious rubbish which I am choosing to ignore.

At times the Indie "aren't we all so deep and meaningful" stuff is nearly too much, but Earth II hanging there in the sky along with the information drip fed to you via the media makes your "what if" synapses go off like machine guns.

More of that please.
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19 of 22 people found the following review helpful
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Format:DVD
This film. Wow. I have never been so completely blown away by a film. This is the film that slams every argument I've had with myself about entertainment passing itself off as genuine heartfelt art.

Another Earth seems to be about so many things, and yet not about them at all: you could say it's about loss, tragedy, physics, science fiction, consequences, redemption...and yet none of these things, singly or combined add up to what this film is. Simply put, it's a masterpiece of intricacy. I'm not really a film person - I'm a books-person - and for me, this film hit all those spots that only a handful of incredible books have reached. The way the scene concentrated so intensely on the moment, on everything about it - the texture of a wall, the space taken up by silence, the smallest nuances of expression, the play of light - every detail came together and gave it so many dimensions that you could watch each minute over and over and it would still be worth watching. The saw scene: so visceral and immediate and breathstopping (where that is a cross of heartstopping and breathtaking)...what a magnificent piece of work.

I loved that silence was given such a significant part. I think a lot of films are let down not necessarily by poor dialogue, but by oversaturating, so that the spoken so heavily overlays the visual that each diminishes the other. I also resent the overuse of music solely for mood manipulation (I realise there is an equal and opposite argument to that, but I'm on the less-is-more side): the fact that at the most emotive moments, there is no music at all, and all you can hear is your own breathing - that is when cinema is at its most powerful.

To quickly visit the entire premise of 'another earth'...this isn't Independence Day or anything like it. It's nothing like it at all. If you go away thinking 'what has another duplicate earth really got to do with it at all?' then the answer is, as always, nothing and everything. It's a story that in many ways circles back on itself, and you finally understand that it's about *patterns*, the patterns that underlay everything - the rules of the universe, people, action and consequence, tragedy and coping, truth and lies.

Finally, a quick summary: On the night a new planet is discovered, Rhoda Williams (Brit Marling, and what a work of art she is, in every sense) is involved in a car accident. She lives every day with the knowledge of having done something unforgivable, and is unable to forgive herself. She sets out to find herself some kind of forgiveness, and when she seeks out the only person who can give her it, she is drawn into his world, with consequences she never imagined.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Deep thinking film 14 May 2013
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
The Sci-Fi effects are pretty much limited to the other earth getting progressively bigger in the sky. What this is really all about is the relationship between two deeply damaged people and their hope that their lives were somehow better for the other versions of themselves.

Quite slow-moving and intense.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
3.0 out of 5 stars mediocre
i bought this film, and thought it was going to be better than it actually was, the trailers made the film to look really interesting, but quite mediocre and boring at times
Published 1 month ago by chris
1.0 out of 5 stars rubbish
very disappointed in this film I expected so much more Waited to buy this for a long time but now wish `i hadn't bothered
Published 1 month ago by christine smith
1.0 out of 5 stars Another Bore
I really wanted to like this film. Everything about it is intriguing. However, it's very poorly made, with amateurish camera work and poor lighting. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Brian_OWC
4.0 out of 5 stars Definitely a film to watch
I really liked this film as the concept was very unusual and unique. I thought the cross of genre was beautiful and executed very well. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Kaylee Lasseter
3.0 out of 5 stars Initially intriguing but ultimately frustrating indie allegory
Superficially, Another Earth resembles a mash-up of Lars von Tiers' Melancholia and Doppelganger (1969), but has neither the grandeur of the former nor the naive if gawdy sci-fi... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Cartimand
5.0 out of 5 stars Thought-provoking and moving low budget indie gem
I saw this movie, in a genre that I like to call 'plausible science fiction', on its release at the cinema. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Christopher Andreas
4.0 out of 5 stars Did the Earth move for you?
It's strange that you wait for ages for a film about another planet suddenly appearing in our Solar System, then two appear in the same month. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Neil STUART BANKS
5.0 out of 5 stars Well thought out and original
"Another Earth" is a 2011 North-American science fiction film directed by Mike Cahill. It stars Brit Marling as Rhoda Williams and William Mapother as John Burroughs (both little... Read more
Published 8 months ago by ManInsideTheHelm
4.0 out of 5 stars DVD 'Another Earth'
The vendor provided a good service by delivering quickly, and the film maker produced an entertaining, modern, film that had a good story
Published 10 months ago by Setter
5.0 out of 5 stars Up in the sky and down on the ground
A low budget independently made science fiction movie. It features very little in the way of special effects and visuals. And it has no action. Read more
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