PROJECT HAIL MARY – Review by Susan Granger
Directors Christopher Miller and Phil Lord’s optimistic adaptation of Andy Weir’s 2021 best-seller follows an earnest molecular biologist who befriends an extraterrestrial in an effort to save both their planets from extinction. The story begins as utterly confused Dr. Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) awakens from years of induced hyper-sleep – alone – on a spacecraft. He’s not an astronaut; he’s a middle-school science teacher from Cleveland who’s been reluctantly recruited to unlock the mystery of the solar parasite Astrophage, a single-celled micro-organism that’s devouring the energy of stars – like the Earth’s sun
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