Parents Phoebe (Mary McCormack) and Nate (Sam Rockwell) are sending their kids Samson and Delilah (Emma Roberts) off to school. The kids calmly wait and then get on the schoolbus. Phoebe is jittery and childlike with her big pigtails. She gets on a pogo stick flying high as she watches the bus drive off. Nate grabs a forgotten notebook and runs to catch up to the bus. The camera pulls back from the isolated farmhouse to see it on an alien planet in a duo sun solar system.
McCormack and Rockwell are great character actors and there's a super young Emma Roberts in her first role. That's something interesting and worthwhile to see. The story could be more compelling even considering its 10 minutes running time. If the big reveal is that they're on an alien planet, the quirky strange occurrences should point to that direction. I don't know why Phoebe is acting that way and being on an alien planet doesn't explain it. It would help to tie Phoebe's behavior to the final reveal better.
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