Another Earth is a 2011 American science fiction/drama film directed by Mike Cahill in his feature film debut. The film stars William Mapother and Brit Marling. It premiered at the 27th Sundance Film Festival in January 2011 and is being distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures.
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| Directed by |
Mike Cahill |
| Produced by |
Hunter Gray
Mike Cahill
Brit Marling
Nicholas Shumaker |
| Written by |
Mike Cahill
Brit Marling |
| Starring |
William Mapother
Brit Marling |
| Cinematography |
Mike Cahill |
| Studio |
Artists Public Domain |
| Distributed by |
Fox Searchlight Pictures |
| Release date(s) |
- January 24, 2011 (Sundance)
- December 9, 2011 (United Kingdom)
|
| Running time |
92 minutes |
| Country |
United States |
| Language |
English |
| Budget |
$200,000 |

Rhoda Williams (Brit Marling) is a brilliant 17 year-old who has spent her young life trained on the stars, and recently learned she was accepted to MIT.
In a reckless, celebratory moment, she drinks with friends and drives
home intoxicated. Listening to a story on the radio about a planet that
looks just like Earth, 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 prison sentence,
Rhoda, after 4 years of isolation, 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 John's 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 Rhoda's 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.
Rhoda returns to clean and develops a caring relationship with John
that eventually becomes more significant and romantic. They like each
other and are intelligent and compatible conversationally. Rhoda
genuinely wants to be of service to him.
Rhoda enters an essay contest sponsored by a millionaire entrepreneur
who is offering a civilian space flight to the mirror Earth. Rhoda's
essay is selected and she is chosen to be one of the first explorers to
travel to the other Earth. Rhoda tells John she has won the space
flight, but he asks her not to go. However, when she tells him that she
was the one who killed his wife and son, he forces her out of his house.
Rhoda hears in a telecast a scientist postulating that the citizens
of the mirror Earth might be identical to those on her Earth in every
way until the moment they learned of the others' existence. From that
point on, the identical people on the different Earths probably began to
deviate in small ways, changing their actions. Rhoda hopes her
identical self on the other Earth did not make the mistakes she made on
the night of the accident.