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Watch: Sci-Fi makes a dramatic return to Sundance with 'Another Earth'

What if there was another version of you?

By Katie Hasty Wednesday, Jan 19, 2011 10:10 PM

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What if another Earth -- Earth II -- suddenly showed up in the sky above our Earth, and the door of possibility was opened for there to be a world which hosted its own civilizations just like ours?

Or go further back: if there was another Earth, would you go visit it?

"Another Earth" explores just those ideas, as the "science fiction romance" links an aspiring astrophysicist (Brit Marling) to a music composer (William Mapother) through tragedy. The tragedy was spurred on by another Earth suddenly appearing in the sky, closer than the moon.

Its a premise promising enough to make "Another Earth" one of HitFix's most anticipated films from this year's Sundance slate.

In one clip, Marling and Mapother sift through some get-to-know you questions: philosophies on cleaning, going to college or not, and winning an essay contest that would send you to outer space. In the other, Marling takes herself to a place where she can the new Earth clearly in the sky, as the voiceover inquires if we even know who we are as a species or race, and "stand outside ourselves and look at us."

Heavy. The Mike Cahill-directed "Another Earth" debuts in Park City on Jan. 24.

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After five years as a columnist and editor at Billboard, Katie Hasty joined HitFix in 2009 for music and film reporting out of New York. The Midwest native has worked as a writer, music promoter and in A&R since 1999 and performs with her band Numbers And Letters.
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    Tausif Khan

    Some one watched Doctor Who "The End of Time" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Time): The President and his council materialise in the Gate room. The Master attempts to reuse the Gate to transform all Time Lords into copies of himself, but the President stops the attempt and reverses the transformation of the human race. At the same time, Gallifrey begins to materialise above Earth, along with all the other horrors created in the Time War.

    January 20, 2011 at 4:21AM EST Reply to Comment
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    Tausif Khan

    Some one watch "The End of Time" episode on Doctor Who: The President and his council materialise in the Gate room. The Master attempts to reuse the Gate to transform all Time Lords into copies of himself, but the President stops the attempt and reverses the transformation of the human race. At the same time, Gallifrey begins to materialise above Earth, along with all the other horrors created in the Time War.

    January 20, 2011 at 4:22AM EST Reply to Comment
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    Tausif Khan

    This (The Sci-Fi trend at Sundance) might be the legacy of District 9.

    January 20, 2011 at 4:30AM EST Reply to Comment

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