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      Beyond the Stars

      PG 1989 1 hr. 28 min. Drama List
      Reviews 44% 100+ Ratings Audience Score The son (Christian Slater) of a former NASA scientist (Robert Foxworth) befriends a fallen astronaut (Martin Sheen) changed for life by his moonwalk. Read More Read Less

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      sonia m Too slow at times, but with tender moments and a great ending. I like Christian Slater's performance. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member This is a bad movie . But it keeps you watching and at the end you are rewarded by a "what the heck" moment that is well worth it. The same scene is reused over and over (I guess that space suit and moon set cost them a lot of money!) and some parts are just voice over like an after thought. I love Christian Slater and Martin Sheen, but they couldn't have saved that movie. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member they kept talking about space and there were a few scenes in space from the moon, but the story was actually about more than that! it was about family and the choices that the kid made...in the end the story continues about people from other planets the end. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member It's a shame this film scores so low- don't be put off by its 'TV-ness'. Yes it is slow-burning, the screenplay is at times amateurish and stilted, and the film is plagued by low production values (particularly the cheaply thrown in, laughable SFX at the end!), but there is a smaller film inside the big, slightly dumb NASA-based project and it hinges, as so many other films do, on Martin Sheen's jaded former astronaut, Col. Paul Andrews. Thank god Sheen drives this at times rudderless, stodgy film with a performance straight out of his top drawer. His jaded, drunk ex-officer seems an older, wiser, and sadder version of his Captain Willard (from Apocalypse Now). With Sheen's performance, ably supported by a star-studded cast including a very fresh-faced Christian Slater, and shorn of its dodgy sci fi packaging, Beyond the Stars shows a very humanistic story about worldy disenchantment and failure palliated by a liberal hope for youth and the future. It isn't surprising that Sheen is at his best here since the film's message is so consistent with his own personal beliefs and lifetime commitments. But it shouldn't be forgotten that David 'Cocoon' Saperstein deserves credit as he wrote the story, which is so off-beat and original- it's just a shame he couldn't seem more able to turn it into a screenplay or direct it. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Audience Member I did not like this movie. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis The son (Christian Slater) of a former NASA scientist (Robert Foxworth) befriends a fallen astronaut (Martin Sheen) changed for life by his moonwalk.
      Director
      David Saperstein
      Rating
      PG
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      English