Another Earth

Another Earth is a 2011 American independent science fictiondrama film directed by Mike Cahill. The film stars William Mapother and Brit Marling. It premiered at the 27th Sundance Film Festival in January 2011 and was distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures.

Rhoda Williams Brit Marling, a brilliant 17yearold girl who has spent her young life fascinated by astronomy, is delighted to learn that she has been accepted into MIT. In a reckless celebratory moment, she drinks with friends and drives home intoxicated. Listening to a story on the radio about a recently discovered Earthlike planet, she gazes out her car window at the stars and inadvertently hits a stopped car at an intersection, putting John Burroughs William Mapother in a coma and killing his wife and son. Rhoda is a minor, so her identity is not revealed to John. After serving her juvenile prison sentence, and after four years of isolation, Rhoda continues to shield herself from the world outside, becoming a janitor at a local school, wanting to work physically, almost as a means to struggle past the potential she has squandered with the decision of a single night.After cleaning her former high school for a while and hearing more news stories about the mirror Earth, Rhoda visits Johns house after he has recovered, thinking she will apologize for the harm she did to him. He answers the door and she loses her nerve. Instead, she pretends to be a maid offering a free day of cleaning as a marketing tool for Maid in Haven a New Haven based maid service. John, who has dropped out of his Yale music faculty position and is now living in a depressed and dirty stupor, agrees to Rhodas offer. When she finishes, John, who still does not know she is the person who killed his wife and son, asks her to come back next week. Rhoda tells him someone will come, but it may not be her. ........

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