This was an enjoyable, and rather strange film. Rhonda Williams (Brit Marling) is a seventeen year-old genius who has spent years stargazing. Recent announcements of the discovery of another Earth on the opposite side of the Sun are in the news. She receives word that she has been accepted to MIT, and after a night of celebrating, has an accident where she hit a stopped vehicle with a family inside, killing the wife and child of John Burroughs (William Mapother), who was left in a coma. His life shattered, he drops out and is living in deep depression. Being only seventeen, Rhonda's name is not released, and she is sent to prison for a term of only four years. Upon release, Rhonda takes a job as a janitor at a local high school, trying to struggle past the potential squandered in bad decisions made in a single night. After hearing more news about the mirror Earth, Rhonda hears a telecast in which a scientist postulates that the citizens of the mirror Earth might be identical to those on her Earth in every way until the moment they learned of the others' existence. From that point on, the identical people on the different Earths probably began to deviate in small ways, changing their actions. Rhoda hopes her identical self on the other Earth did not make the mistakes she made on the night of the accident. Rhonda now looks up John Burroughs and visits his house to attempt to apologize for the pain she caused him. When she arrives, she chickens out and makes up a story that she is a maid working for a maid service "Maid in Heaven", there to offer one day of free house cleaning (a promotional offer). John accepts, and afterwards requests that she return the following week. She does return and after several more visits, a caring relationship with John that eventually becomes more significant and romantic. They like each other and are intelligent and compatible conversationally. Rhoda genuinely wants to be of service to him. Rhonda enters an essay contest, which is offering for first prize, a spot on the first space ship to go to the mirror Earth. She wins the contest and tells John who she is and that she has won. He throws her out of his house. Rhoda returns to John's house and leaves him the ticket to the other Earth, telling him enough information to give him a small hope that his wife and son might be alive on that planet. John accepts the gift and becomes one of the first civilian space travelers to the other Earth. Four months later, Rhoda looks up at the sky where Earth 2 is now hidden in fog. She approaches her back door and sees her twin from Earth 2 standing in front of her.Read full review
We've been looking for this movie for a long while and it was disappointing to find out that it was only available in the US in Blu-Ray form however, just somehow by chance we found it on eBay! The disc had both the DVD and Blu-Ray version which was great for us since we don't have a Blu-Ray player. Thank you so much! The discs arrived quickly and undamaged. We couldn't use the digital download but, no worries we were happy to get the main movie overall and we can now add it to are shelf!
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It's an okay movie, but it's not really a sci-fi film in my opinion.
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Great find and good price!
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Great, Love Brit Marling story telling!
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