In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.
Augie Steenbeck
Midge Campbell
Stanley Zak
General Gibson
Dr. Hickenlooper
The Host
Conrad Earp
Schubert Green
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...
Status Released
Original LanguageEnglish
Budget$25,000,000.00
Revenue $47,281,670.00