Asteroid City

Jun 8, 2023

1h 45m

★ 6.5

Keep telling the story.

Overview

In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Indian Paintbrush

American Empirical Pictures

Studio Babelsberg

Asteroid City Trailers

Cast

Augie Steenbeck

Jason Schwartzman

Midge Campbell

Scarlett Johansson

Stanley Zak

Tom Hanks

General Gibson

Jeffrey Wright

Dr. Hickenlooper

Tilda Swinton

The Host

Bryan Cranston

Conrad Earp

Edward Norton

Schubert Green

Adrien Brody

J.J. Kellogg

Liev Schreiber

Sandy Borden

Hope Davis

Roger Cho

Steve Park

Montana

Rupert Friend

Fledgling comic Benjy Stone can't believe his luck when his childhood hero, the swashbuckling matinee idol Alan Swann, gets booked to appear on the variety show he writes for. But when Swann arrives, he fails to live up to his silver screen image. Instead, he's a drunken womanizer who suffers from stage fright. Benjy is assigned to look after him before the show, and it's all he can do to keep his former idol from going completely off the rails.

5.6

The Summer I Turned 15

Mar 4, 1976

The story Peter is telling the about a special summer, when he is invited over to summer holiday from bickering parents, to his aunt and uncle in the country. He's been there before, but this summer was quite one to remember.

4.3

Tabloid!

Sep 1, 1989

Aliens invade an aerobics class before the credits roll in this horror anthology spoof illustrating outrageous stories that could easily be found in a tabloid newspaper at your local grocery store checkout! The stories are: Baby Born With Full Beard, BBQ Of The Dead, and Killer Vacuum Destroys Town

3.7

Bringing Up Bobby

May 15, 2009

Bobby Wyler is a confused fifteen year old trying to figure out who he is and what he believes before life gets complicated...

7.3

Remember the Night

Jan 19, 1940

Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone in jail.

5.3

Deceit

Aug 21, 1992

Two outer-space aliens visit Earth with the intention of blowing it up, but they meet a hot blonde and decide to postpone the planet's destruction in order to try to score with her.

5.5

To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday

Oct 25, 1996

David loves his wife, Gillian. Unfortunately, she died two years ago. David deals with his grief by continuing his romance with Gillian during walks with her "ghost" on the beach at night. While David lives in the past, other family problems crop up in the present in the real world....

3.8

Space Thing

Sep 20, 1968

A man is in bed reading Sci-Fi mags, and his wife seduces him. He then falls asleep, and the rest is his dream. He is from an alternate world, and disguises himself as an alien, then boards their ship, to keep them from attacking his planet. The captain is a woman, who has two lesbian encounters with her crew, and whips one of them for trying to have sex with our hero. All of the women are anxious to seduce our hero, as the other two men on the ship are not very exciting. Our hero forces a landing on an asetroid (actually the outskirts of Palmdale, California) and everyone runs around topless and has sex. He then blows up the alien ship in the worst special effects explosion.

7.8

The Black Sheep

Dec 24, 1949

The Trevino family tries to overcome the irresponsible behavior of Don Cruz, an erratic father with numerous defects that contrast with his son Silvano, a young kid man that is incapable of passing judgment on his own father.

4.6

Under the Mountain

Dec 10, 2009

Teenage twins battle dark forces hidden beneath Auckland's volcanoes.

8.9

National Theatre Live: Skylight

Jul 24, 2014

On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis receives an unexpected visit from her former lover, Tom Sergeant, a successful and charismatic restaurateur whose wife has recently died. As the evening progresses, the two attempt to rekindle their once passionate relationship only to find themselves locked in a dangerous battle of opposing ideologies and mutual desires.

6.0

The Ceiling

Mar 15, 2018

On the brink of divorce a middle aged man, Olavi, retreats to his cabin by the lake. After a few days he finds that the ceiling has come down making him unable to stand up straight. His friend Tuomas arrives and insists that something has to be done whereas Olavi is content with the limited space.