(Director: Marc Turteltaub; USA, 87mins) 

Small-town recluse Milton (Ben Kingsley, at his most effortlessly adorable) is getting more forgetful and isolated with age. When an extra-terrestrial being, who comes to be known as ‘Jules’, crash lands in his backyard, the two form an unlikely bond. Things get complicated when his neighbours Sandy (Harriet Harris) and Joyce (Jane Curtin) make the discovery, just as the government begins to close in. Veteran Hollywood producer Marc Turtletaub (Little Miss Sunshine; The Farewell; Safety Not Guaranteed) directs with a deeply compassionate eye for human frailties and eccentricities in this silver-haired spin on the ‘stranded E.T.’ narrative. Direct from its US theatrical season; co-stars Succession’s Zoe Winter.

Australian Premiere