A young Brooklyn couple head upstate to disconnect from their phones and reconnect with themselves. Cut off from their devices, they miss the news that the planet is under attack.
Writing
Razor-sharp millennial self-satire that never punches down.
Acting
Mani and Reynolds sell cosmic dread with relationship exhaustion.
Practical Effects
Charming lo-fi aliens that feel hilariously homemade.
Director
Alex Huston Fischer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The directors are a real-life couple who wrote this during their own upstate getaway. Art imitates life imitates anxiety.
Released in 2020, it accidentally predicted pandemic disconnect—people missing catastrophe while 'self-caring' in isolation.
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