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Stowaway

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On a mission headed to Mars, an unintended stowaway accidentally causes severe damage to the spaceship's life support systems. Facing dwindling resources and a potentially fatal outcome, the crew is forced to make an impossible decision.
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Critics Consensus

Pacing problems prevent Stowaway from fully engaging, but it's distinguished by its thoughtful, well-acted approach to a story built on an excruciating moral dilemma.

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Although it's well-acted and beautifully filmed, this cleverly conceived sci-fi drama is undone by its predictable, drawn-out story and a frustrating ending.

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Robert Levin Newsday Such a tightly written and engaging character piece that it overcomes an unconvincing premise. Rated: 3/4 Apr 26, 2021 Full Review Charlotte O'Sullivan London Evening Standard Stowaway, it turns out, is just as intricate and immersive. Rated: 3/5 Apr 24, 2021 Full Review Bilge Ebiri New York Magazine/Vulture Just about every confusing plot point is overcome by a powerful human moment. Apr 23, 2021 Full Review Carlos Ovalle But Why Tho? A Geek Community Stowaway is not complex, nor is it trying to be, but if you’re looking for a quick distraction that’ll leave your palms sweaty and your heart racing, then this is well worth your time. Rated: 8/10 Jan 22, 2023 Full Review M.N. Miller Ready Steady Cut {Stowaway} completely mishandles any chance of a morality play by playing it too safe. It’s such a flat experience that it made me ponder whether the world is round after all. Rated: 2/5 Oct 9, 2022 Full Review Zoë Rose Bryant Loud and Clear Reviews Stowaway is a new kind of sci-fi story - one that highlights how complicated moral concerns and true-life tragedies can be far more troubling than any of the extraterrestrial threats we’ve come to associate with the genre. Rated: 4/5 Sep 1, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews

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Der I Beautiful epic space images, but only the old narrative (too little oxygen, dramatic rescue operation, (requested) willingness to make sacrifices). Unfortunately, not much new here, certainly no new questions. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/23/24 Full Review Gareth v While it presents an interesting moral dilemma, the journey to it's conclusion is rather mundane and lacking any sort of suspense. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 10/19/24 Full Review Rod M The human drama is engaging, if a little slow paced, but the crisis and solution to it are just completely implausible. One modest hand portable oxygen tank is simply insufficient to sustain anyone for any great length of time and even if it was, there is no urgency about retreiving it that necessitates a spacewalk during a solar storm. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 09/13/24 Full Review Seth L The movies climax makes no sense. There was more than enough time to retrieve the air once astablished it was there and enough. No need to hurry and make mistakes let alone sacrifice someone Rated 1 out of 5 stars 09/07/24 Full Review Emilliano Jr S A sci-fi drama that makes you feel like you are about to choose to live or not. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 08/29/24 Full Review Artus O This has to be one of the absolutely most ridiculous concepts for a movie ever. A mechanical engineer, working for a space program SOMEHOW gets knocked unconscious, hanging in a spaceship & is discovered after lift off? The sheer absurdity of this explanation: "I must have got knocked out." For how long? Being "knocked out & waking up somewhere else" is a horrible trope used constantly in mysteries. People don't get knocked out for extended periods of time in like 99% of cases. He's in an enclosed space. How was he not accounted for? He has a ******** sister & co-workers who would have been like... "uh yo. Our friend hasn't been around. Last seen at work. You know... in a spaceship." It's not like a mechanical engineer is on board the craft minutes before lift off. I thought, maybe, he intentionally stowed away (which by the now that I think about it, he'd have been absolutely shredded from the lift off, not being buckled in) stating his dream was to be on the next flight, but the writer has said straight up, "Nope. Is just an accident." Stupid. Not believable. Even Anna Kendricks outstanding charisma & hilarity can't save this piece of junk. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 07/24/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis On a mission headed to Mars, an unintended stowaway accidentally causes severe damage to the spaceship's life support systems. Facing dwindling resources and a potentially fatal outcome, the crew is forced to make an impossible decision.
Director
Joe Penna
Producer
Ulrich Schwarz, Maximilian Leo, Nick Spicer, Clay Pecorin, Aram Tertzakian, Jonas Katzenstein
Screenwriter
Joe Penna, Ryan Morrison
Production Co
Phiphen Pictures, Augenschein Filmproduktion, Rise Pictures, XYZ Films, Yale Productions, Stage 6 Films, RainMaker Films, Black Canopy Films, MMC Movies
Genre
Sci-Fi, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 22, 2021
Runtime
1h 56m
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