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- 2021
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 56 m
- 2021
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 56 m
Summary 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.
Directed By: Joe Penna
Written By: Ryan Morrison
- 2021
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 56 m
- 2021
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 56 m
Stowaway
63
4.9
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Summary 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.
Directed By: Joe Penna
Written By: Ryan Morrison
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
63
71% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
25% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
4% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
63
71% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
25% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
4% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Penna and his co-writer Ryan Morrison handle this existentially challenging material with grace, and Kendrick, Collette, Kim and Anderson deliver equally impactful, intense performances.
If you can buy the film’s unlikely core premise, you’ll be rewarded with persuasive speculative fiction in all its other aspects. Penna and company make it easy for audiences to do that, while putting four people whom they’ll come to really care about through all kinds of hell.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 122 User Ratings
4.9
34% Positive
41 Ratings
41 Ratings
34% Mixed
41 Ratings
41 Ratings
33% Negative
40 Ratings
40 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 122 User Ratings
4.9
34% Positive
41 Ratings
41 Ratings
34% Mixed
41 Ratings
41 Ratings
33% Negative
40 Ratings
40 Ratings
this is a survivalist movie - a question of what will you do if you are in such a predicament? A tough question to find an answer to and that hooks you into the movie --- this is not an action movie or a superhero one so be advised of that if that is what you are expecting to see. The cast is amazing! Anna Kendrick, Toni Collette, Daniel Day Kim & Shamier Anderson ...need I say more?
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Joe Penna knows how to make a movie that holds you without being pushy about it. His voice as a filmmaker comes through, even in a genre as studded with commercial tropes as this one.
It’s more competent than inspired, however, with skillfully shot action but not much in the way of bold choices. It’s compelling enough while it lasts, but all but guaranteed to vanish from memory the instant the credits roll.
The makings are all there for a fascinating character study, which Stowaway more closely resembles than a sci-fi thriller. But the fact that we know so little about these people beyond a few basic traits makes it difficult for us to feel as emotionally invested as we should in their fate.
What ultimately hampers the film is that, once the agonising dilemma is introduced, the script quickly becomes a standard survival-in-space saga, recalling everything from Gravity to The Midnight Sky. The performances are nicely modulated, though, resisting the story’s inherently melodramatic qualities and instead focusing on trying to solve the problem at hand.
By paring their story down so much, the filmmakers only end up highlighting just how little it contains.
Good design of the spaceship, but the stupidest possible decisions of the astronauts living there
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Stowaway is a second-rate sci-fi thriller. The film can literally be viewed from the trailer. Weak cast, budget of the picture and straightforward boring plot. The whole film only tries to seem like Sci-Fi, but the dullness of some plot twists shows that this is more of a sitcom
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Production Company
XYZ Films,
Augenschein Filmproduktion,
RISE PICTURES,
RainMaker Films,
Yale Productions,
Phiphen Pictures,
RISE Visual Effects Studios,
Bavaria Filmproduktion,
MMC Movies,
WeFadeToGrey,
Ludwig Kameraverleih,
Black Canopy Films
Release Date Apr 22, 2021
Duration 1 h 56 m
Rating TV-MA
Tagline Millions of miles from home. Survival comes from sacrifice.
