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Asteroid City (2023)

PG-1306/08/2023Comedy, Drama1h 45m

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Overview

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

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Jason Schwartzman

    Augie Steenbeck

  2. Cast 1

    Scarlett Johansson

    Midge Campbell

  3. Cast 1

    Tom Hanks

    Stanley Zak

  4. Cast 1

    Jeffrey Wright

    General Gibson

  5. Cast 1

    Tilda Swinton

    Dr. Hickenlooper

  6. Cast 1

    Bryan Cranston

    The Host

  7. Cast 1

    Edward Norton

    Conrad Earp

  8. Cast 1

    Adrien Brody

    Schubert Green

  9. Cast 1

    Liev Schreiber

    J.J. Kellogg

Top tongue-in-cheek directors: Wes Anderson and Wen Jiang. Asteroid City isn't my favorite Wes film, but it's surely tongue-in-cheek and pretty damn funny. This movie reminds me a little of Tennessee Williams, the all-time master of damaged and traumatized human psyches. I see this work as a treatise on human issues, especially the labels given to us by others and those we give ourselves, and how they affect one's life and relationships. The partial view of the "Confessions of a Narcissist" marquis that showed up in the background of the tet-a-tet between Augie and his almost-onstage-wif...