Stars: Georgiana Gillespie, Rebecca Banner, Vanessa Cruickshank, Stephen Good, Sarah Somerville, Caroline Burns Cooke, Tony De Souza, Cameron Wright, Lisa Ronaghan, Paul Hughes | Written and Directed by Alexandra Gillespie
Etta (Georgiana Gillespie) takes a job managing a halfway house between life and death, where newly deceased guests have the chance to do one last thing before crossing over. When her murdered friend Olivia (Rebecca Banner) arrives in breach of all the rules, she must juggle her responsibilities to the guests, help her friend get justice and not get caught by her interfering boss.
It’s hard to believe that Just One Last Thing is the debut feature from writer/director Alexandra Gillespie. What’s even harder to believe is that Gillespie turned screenwriter after working in finance for years and then decided to get her scripts made she would also have to direct too! Why hard to believe? Because Just...
Etta (Georgiana Gillespie) takes a job managing a halfway house between life and death, where newly deceased guests have the chance to do one last thing before crossing over. When her murdered friend Olivia (Rebecca Banner) arrives in breach of all the rules, she must juggle her responsibilities to the guests, help her friend get justice and not get caught by her interfering boss.
It’s hard to believe that Just One Last Thing is the debut feature from writer/director Alexandra Gillespie. What’s even harder to believe is that Gillespie turned screenwriter after working in finance for years and then decided to get her scripts made she would also have to direct too! Why hard to believe? Because Just...
- 2/29/2024
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Stars: Teagan Croft, Cliff Curtis, Alyla Browne, Josh Lawson, Anna Paquin | Written by Cathy Randall, Rebecca Banner, Sarah Spillane | Directed by Sarah Spillane
An Australian teenager plans to become the youngest sailor to have travelled the world alone. In doing so, the intrepid 16-year-old not only seeks to fulfil her dream, she also faces her greatest fears at the same time.
Even people who are fascinated by sailing are sure to find Sarah Spillane‘s True Spirit to be an extremely cheaply made, tiresome bore that is never quite able to strongly tell the amazing true story of an Australian teenager named Jessica Watson, who was the youngest person to sail solo, non-stop around the world.
There’s a certain quality to this movie that makes it feel like it was made on a college student’s budget, even though this is a Netflix film. The cinematography by Danny Ruhlmann...
An Australian teenager plans to become the youngest sailor to have travelled the world alone. In doing so, the intrepid 16-year-old not only seeks to fulfil her dream, she also faces her greatest fears at the same time.
Even people who are fascinated by sailing are sure to find Sarah Spillane‘s True Spirit to be an extremely cheaply made, tiresome bore that is never quite able to strongly tell the amazing true story of an Australian teenager named Jessica Watson, who was the youngest person to sail solo, non-stop around the world.
There’s a certain quality to this movie that makes it feel like it was made on a college student’s budget, even though this is a Netflix film. The cinematography by Danny Ruhlmann...
- 2/10/2023
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Netflix’s list of films premiering on the streaming service in 2023 isn’t nearly as long as their ambitious 2022 film slate. Yet even with a slimmed-down slate, the lineup of movies arriving this year is impressive and checks off nearly every genre.
The streamer will be dipping back into familiar territory with sequels to Murder Mystery and Extraction. Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon, Sam Esmail’s Leave the World Behind, and David Yates’ The Pain Hustlers will premiere this year, as will the film continuation of Luther starring Idris Elba. And two romantic comedies with big-name casts made their way into the lineup: Your Place or Mine (Ashton Kutcher and Reese Witherspoon) and A Family Affair.
Netflix’s announcement of their 2023 film slate was accompanied by a trailer showcasing 16 titles including You People, The Mother, Heart of Stone, The Killer, and Leo.
The following list, courtesy of Netflix, includes basic plot details,...
The streamer will be dipping back into familiar territory with sequels to Murder Mystery and Extraction. Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon, Sam Esmail’s Leave the World Behind, and David Yates’ The Pain Hustlers will premiere this year, as will the film continuation of Luther starring Idris Elba. And two romantic comedies with big-name casts made their way into the lineup: Your Place or Mine (Ashton Kutcher and Reese Witherspoon) and A Family Affair.
Netflix’s announcement of their 2023 film slate was accompanied by a trailer showcasing 16 titles including You People, The Mother, Heart of Stone, The Killer, and Leo.
The following list, courtesy of Netflix, includes basic plot details,...
- 1/18/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Exclusive: Samuel Goldwyn Films has picked up North American rights to Kyra Sedgwick’s second feature directorial, Space Oddity, based on Rebecca Banner’s Black List script.
Planets and lives collide as Alex (Kyle Allen) longs to travel to outer space and finally gets the opportunity to do so thanks to a privately-funded Mars colonization program. In the midst of his rigorous preparation, he meets Daisy (Alexandra Shipp), the new girl in town who’s trying to start over. The two wayward souls connect in unexpected ways, both of them harboring secrets that they’re desperately trying to overcome. However, when questions about the legitimacy of the program and the future of his parents’ flower farm begin to crop up, Alex finds himself questioning whether it’s easier to confront his past or fly away into the stars. The movie also stars Madeline Brewer (The Handmaid’s Tale), Carrie Preston (The Good Fight...
Planets and lives collide as Alex (Kyle Allen) longs to travel to outer space and finally gets the opportunity to do so thanks to a privately-funded Mars colonization program. In the midst of his rigorous preparation, he meets Daisy (Alexandra Shipp), the new girl in town who’s trying to start over. The two wayward souls connect in unexpected ways, both of them harboring secrets that they’re desperately trying to overcome. However, when questions about the legitimacy of the program and the future of his parents’ flower farm begin to crop up, Alex finds himself questioning whether it’s easier to confront his past or fly away into the stars. The movie also stars Madeline Brewer (The Handmaid’s Tale), Carrie Preston (The Good Fight...
- 11/1/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Blasting off Sunday evening at the Tribeca Festival, Space Oddity is a small, character-driven dramedy of one young man’s odd life-altering plan to take a one-way ticket to Mars just as love and family intervene on his plans. If that premise sounds improbable, it actually is the kind of thing that seems to be popping up lately as fodder for various indie-centric film festivals. Earlier this year at SXSW, we saw comedian Jim Gaffigan in Linoleum, where he plays a father and husband whose lifelong dream of being an astronaut takes flight when he builds a rocket ship in his garage to do just that. Like Space Oddity, which comes from Kyra Sedgwick directing a Black List script by Rebecca Banner, that film focused on the rather offbeat behavior of its central character, much to the chagrin of his family.
Kyle Allen stars as Alex McAllister, who announces he...
Kyle Allen stars as Alex McAllister, who announces he...
- 6/13/2022
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
‘Space Oddity’ Film Review: Kyra Sedgwick’s Family Drama About a Cosmos-Obsessed Son Never Lifts Off
Billionaires may see funding space travel as the best recourse for an uninhabitable planet, but everyday folk have escape issues, too, albeit for more relatable reasons.
In the indie drama “Space Oddity,” the rocketing-to-Mars dreams of a space-obsessed young man are a barely concealed cover for lingering grief. That’s a compelling set-up for a knotty family story, but not as evidenced by the surface cutes that keep real feeling at bay in this curiously uninvolving directorial effort from Kyra Sedgwick.
We meet wholesome-looking Alex McAllister as he delivers some eager, presentational voiceover about “mankind’s next chapter,” along with glimpses of space-travel paraphernalia, and shots of him running through flower fields and woods to a percolating, galactic-tinged score out of a planetarium show. An astronaut in training, Alex is thrilled to be part of a privately funded, hotly hyped program aimed at colonizing Mars where, Alex tells us in voiceover,...
In the indie drama “Space Oddity,” the rocketing-to-Mars dreams of a space-obsessed young man are a barely concealed cover for lingering grief. That’s a compelling set-up for a knotty family story, but not as evidenced by the surface cutes that keep real feeling at bay in this curiously uninvolving directorial effort from Kyra Sedgwick.
We meet wholesome-looking Alex McAllister as he delivers some eager, presentational voiceover about “mankind’s next chapter,” along with glimpses of space-travel paraphernalia, and shots of him running through flower fields and woods to a percolating, galactic-tinged score out of a planetarium show. An astronaut in training, Alex is thrilled to be part of a privately funded, hotly hyped program aimed at colonizing Mars where, Alex tells us in voiceover,...
- 6/13/2022
- by Robert Abele
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Kevin Bacon, Simon Helberg and Carrie Preston are joining Primetime Emmy winner Kyra Sedgwick’s second feature directorial Space Oddity from the 2016 Black List script.
Additionally, Rei Co-op Studios has come on board as producers of the film alongside Sedgwick and Valerie Stadler’s Big Swing Productions.
Penned by Rebecca Banner, Space Oddity tells the story of Alex (Kyle Allen) who, after giving up on Earth and deciding to leave it all behind for a one-way mission to Mars, develops an unexpected romance with Daisy (Alexandra Shipp), the enigmatic town newcomer, which forces him to choose between an uncertain journey to the stars and an even more uncertain journey of the heart.
Bacon will play Jeff, Alex’s Father; Preston is Jane, Alex’s mother; while Helberg plays Dimitri, the love interest to Alex’s sister, Liz. Production is taking place in Rhode Island.
Additionally, Rei Co-op Studios has come on board as producers of the film alongside Sedgwick and Valerie Stadler’s Big Swing Productions.
Penned by Rebecca Banner, Space Oddity tells the story of Alex (Kyle Allen) who, after giving up on Earth and deciding to leave it all behind for a one-way mission to Mars, develops an unexpected romance with Daisy (Alexandra Shipp), the enigmatic town newcomer, which forces him to choose between an uncertain journey to the stars and an even more uncertain journey of the heart.
Bacon will play Jeff, Alex’s Father; Preston is Jane, Alex’s mother; while Helberg plays Dimitri, the love interest to Alex’s sister, Liz. Production is taking place in Rhode Island.
- 7/29/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix has set the adult cast of their upcoming Australian family movie True Spirit with Oscar winner Anna Paquin, Avatar franchise star Cliff Curtis and Oscar nominee Josh Lawson.
True Spirit is based on the true story of Jessica Watson, a 16-year-old Australian who in 2010 became the youngest person to sail solo, nonstop and unassisted around the world. She accomplished what many thought impossible, navigating some of the world’s most challenging stretches of ocean and surviving seven knockdowns while at sea for 210 days. Watson will consult on the biopic.
The trio join previously announced Teagan Croft, who’ll portray Watson. Paquin is set to play Jessica’s mum, Julie Watson; Lawson is Jessica’s dad, Roger Watson, and Curtis is Jessica’s coach, Ben Bryant.
The movie will be shot in Queensland and Sydney later this year with a predominantly local cast and crew. The production is backed by...
True Spirit is based on the true story of Jessica Watson, a 16-year-old Australian who in 2010 became the youngest person to sail solo, nonstop and unassisted around the world. She accomplished what many thought impossible, navigating some of the world’s most challenging stretches of ocean and surviving seven knockdowns while at sea for 210 days. Watson will consult on the biopic.
The trio join previously announced Teagan Croft, who’ll portray Watson. Paquin is set to play Jessica’s mum, Julie Watson; Lawson is Jessica’s dad, Roger Watson, and Curtis is Jessica’s coach, Ben Bryant.
The movie will be shot in Queensland and Sydney later this year with a predominantly local cast and crew. The production is backed by...
- 7/21/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Josh Lawson, Anna Paquin, and Cliff Curtis have been added to the cast of Sarah Spillane’s True Spirit, which is set to begin filming for Netflix later this year.
They will join Teagan Croft in the adaptation of Jessica Watson’s memoir, with the story to detail the then 16-year-old’s 2010 journey to become the youngest person to sail solo, non-stop, and unassisted around the world.
Paquin and Lawson will play Watson’s parents, Julie and Roger Watson, while Curtis is set to portray her coach Ben Bryant.
Lawson most recently starred in New Line Cinema’s Mortal Kombat, while New Zealand actors Curtis and Paquin have also garnered international attention throughout their careers, most recently through roles in Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw and The Irishman, respectively.
For True Spirit, the trio is set to film on location in Queensland and Sydney, with the former to house the majority of production.
They will join Teagan Croft in the adaptation of Jessica Watson’s memoir, with the story to detail the then 16-year-old’s 2010 journey to become the youngest person to sail solo, non-stop, and unassisted around the world.
Paquin and Lawson will play Watson’s parents, Julie and Roger Watson, while Curtis is set to portray her coach Ben Bryant.
Lawson most recently starred in New Line Cinema’s Mortal Kombat, while New Zealand actors Curtis and Paquin have also garnered international attention throughout their careers, most recently through roles in Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw and The Irishman, respectively.
For True Spirit, the trio is set to film on location in Queensland and Sydney, with the former to house the majority of production.
- 7/21/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Exclusive: Primetime Emmy winner Kyra Sedgwick is set to direct Rebecca Banner’s 2016 Black List screenplay Space Oddity with Kyle Allen, Alexandra Shipp and Madeline Brewer starring. The pic reps Sedgwick’s second feature directorial after Story of a Girl for which she received a DGA nomination. Space Oddity is set to begin production this month in Rhode Island.
Space Oddity tells the story of Alex (Allen) who, after giving up on Earth and deciding to leave it all behind for a one-way mission to Mars, develops an unexpected romance with Daisy (Shipp), the enigmatic town newcomer, which forces him to choose between an uncertain journey to the stars and an even more uncertain journey of the heart.
Brewer will play Liz, Alex’s sister, who has reluctantly returned to the farm where she grew up.
The feature is the first movie Sedgwick and Valerie Stadler will be producing under their banner Big Swing Productions.
Space Oddity tells the story of Alex (Allen) who, after giving up on Earth and deciding to leave it all behind for a one-way mission to Mars, develops an unexpected romance with Daisy (Shipp), the enigmatic town newcomer, which forces him to choose between an uncertain journey to the stars and an even more uncertain journey of the heart.
Brewer will play Liz, Alex’s sister, who has reluctantly returned to the farm where she grew up.
The feature is the first movie Sedgwick and Valerie Stadler will be producing under their banner Big Swing Productions.
- 6/22/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Teagan Croft, who is best known for her role on HBO Max’s DC Entertainment series Titans, has been tapped to star in family film True Spirit for Netflix.
Based on Jessica Watson’s memoir of the same name, True Spirit follows the Australian sailor who in 2010, at just 16-years-old, became the youngest person to sail solo, non-stop, and unassisted around the world, surviving seven knockdowns while at sea for 210 days.
Sarah Spillane is set to direct from a script she wrote with Cathy Randall and revisions by Rebecca Banner.
Debra Martin Chase will produce under Martin Chase Productions, along with Susan ...
Based on Jessica Watson’s memoir of the same name, True Spirit follows the Australian sailor who in 2010, at just 16-years-old, became the youngest person to sail solo, non-stop, and unassisted around the world, surviving seven knockdowns while at sea for 210 days.
Sarah Spillane is set to direct from a script she wrote with Cathy Randall and revisions by Rebecca Banner.
Debra Martin Chase will produce under Martin Chase Productions, along with Susan ...
- 5/21/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Teagan Croft, who is best known for her role on HBO Max’s DC Entertainment series Titans, has been tapped to star in family film True Spirit for Netflix.
Based on Jessica Watson’s memoir of the same name, True Spirit follows the Australian sailor who in 2010, at just 16-years-old, became the youngest person to sail solo, non-stop, and unassisted around the world, surviving seven knockdowns while at sea for 210 days.
Sarah Spillane is set to direct from a script she wrote with Cathy Randall and revisions by Rebecca Banner.
Debra Martin Chase will produce under Martin Chase Productions, along with Susan ...
Based on Jessica Watson’s memoir of the same name, True Spirit follows the Australian sailor who in 2010, at just 16-years-old, became the youngest person to sail solo, non-stop, and unassisted around the world, surviving seven knockdowns while at sea for 210 days.
Sarah Spillane is set to direct from a script she wrote with Cathy Randall and revisions by Rebecca Banner.
Debra Martin Chase will produce under Martin Chase Productions, along with Susan ...
- 5/21/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Seventy-three unproduced screenplays comprise this year’s Black List, an annual ranking of well-regarded scripts that have yet to make the leap from page to screen. More than 250 executives in the film industry voted on this year’s edition, and their consensus is that Elyse Hollander’s Madonna biopic “Blond Ambition” is the “most liked” of them.
Previous screenplays that have appeared on the Black List and gone on to be produced include “Spotlight,” “Arrival” and “Manchester by the Sea.” Full list below:
“Blond Ambition” by Elyse Hollander (48)
“Life Itself” by Dan Fogelman (35)
“The Olympian” by Tony Tost (35)
“The Post” by Liz Hannah (35)
“Voyagers” by Zach Dean (28)
“In the Blink of an Eye” by Colby Day (25)
“O2” by Christie LeBlan (22)
“Untitled Lax Mandis Project” by Seth Spector (22)
“Dark Money” by Matt Fruchtman (21)
“Letters from Rosemary Kennedy” by Nick Yarborough (21)
“Linda and Monica” by Flint Wainess (20)
“Hala” by Minhal Baig (19)
“The...
Previous screenplays that have appeared on the Black List and gone on to be produced include “Spotlight,” “Arrival” and “Manchester by the Sea.” Full list below:
“Blond Ambition” by Elyse Hollander (48)
“Life Itself” by Dan Fogelman (35)
“The Olympian” by Tony Tost (35)
“The Post” by Liz Hannah (35)
“Voyagers” by Zach Dean (28)
“In the Blink of an Eye” by Colby Day (25)
“O2” by Christie LeBlan (22)
“Untitled Lax Mandis Project” by Seth Spector (22)
“Dark Money” by Matt Fruchtman (21)
“Letters from Rosemary Kennedy” by Nick Yarborough (21)
“Linda and Monica” by Flint Wainess (20)
“Hala” by Minhal Baig (19)
“The...
- 12/12/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
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