Movie Review: ANOTHER EARTH and ONE DAY - Hawaii News Now - KGMB
and KHNL   Posted: Updated:  ANOTHER EARTH is a smart, sensitive
low budget film about a woman struggling with extreme guilt and
a man dealing with a painful loss.  It's more of an compelling
art film than a mainstream drama though many critics believe its
lead actress, the talented Brit Marling, is destined to become a
Hollywood movie star. Marling plays Rhoda Williams a seventeen
year old who has just one a scholarship to study astrophysics.
During one moment of inattention behind the steering wheel of
her car, Rhoda kills a mother and son, the family of John
Burroughs, a Yale music professor played by William Mapother.
(You may remember him as Ethan in LOST.)  After four years in
prison, Rhoda goes to see John who is mired in deep depression.
but when he answers the door she cannot tell him who she is.
She winds up working as his maid. Slowly, the two become close
even as she continues to hide what she's done.  There's also a
science fiction