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Legendary NASA robotics engineer and best-selling science fiction author, Gentry Lee, has spent a lifetime seeking an answer to the ultimate cosmic question: Are we alone in the universe? At age 82 he has come to a revelatory conclusion.

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Glenn Kenny New York Times Feb 4
Lee’s gospel of the possible is ultimately a winning one. Go to Full Review Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter Mar 18
It’s a thesis that’s hard to sensationalize and neither Stone nor Lee try to. Starman just wants you to briefly get caught up in considering it. Go to Full Review Owen Gleiberman Variety 03/14/2025
A documentary about space exploration that puts you in touch with your inner wide-eyed child. It’s the intergalactic meditation as blissed-out mind-bender. Go to Full Review Christopher Campbell Nonfics (Substack) Feb 11
Starman loses some of its focus in the end by touching on more topics, but it’s otherwise a fantastic profile of Lee and should delight anyone interested in the cosmos and our place in it. Go to Full Review John Stark Mac the Movie Guy Feb 6
81/100
Starman doesn’t perhaps go quite where no man has gone before, but it does tackle the theory of life on other planets with some astute theorizing. Go to Full Review Alex Billington FirstShowing.net Oct 20
8/10
I would've happily listened to Gentry Lee go even deeper into theories, ideas, differently possibilities, stories about Sagan or NASA... Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Robert Stone

Director

Tom Hurwitz

Director

Lindy Jankura

Director

Gentry Lee

Narrator

Gentry Lee

Self

Ray Rothrock

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Synopsis Legendary NASA robotics engineer and best-selling science fiction author, Gentry Lee, has spent a lifetime seeking an answer to the ultimate cosmic question: Are we alone in the universe? At age 82 he has come to a revelatory conclusion.
Director
Robert Stone, Tom Hurwitz, Lindy Jankura
Producer
Ray Rothrock, Keith Haviland, Robert Stone
Screenwriter
Robert Stone, Robert Stone
Distributor
Obscured Releasing
Production Co
Robert Stone Productions
Genre
Documentary, Biography
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Feb 6, 2026, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 6, 2026
Box Office (Gross USA)
$24.9K
Runtime
1h 25m
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