History Film / AnotherEarth

''Another Earth'' is a 2011 ScienceFiction independent film directed by Mike Cahill and written by Cahill and leading actress Brit Marling. It was distributed by {{Fox}} Searchlight Pictures. It is about the discovery of [[CounterEarth a duplicate of planet Earth]] and its effects on the lives of two people.

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''Another Earth'' is a 2011 SciFi-drama independent film directed by Mike Cahill and written by Cahill and leading actress Brit Marling, and distributed by {{Fox}} Searchlight Pictures. It is about the discovery of [[CounterEarth a duplicate of planet Earth]] and its effects on the lives of two people.

Rhoda Williams is a young woman who has just been accepted in MIT. She has a great future ahead of her, but after celebrating by drinking, she has a car accident when she is distracted by the sight of a planet in the sky that resembles Earth. The car struck belongs to a composer named John Burroughs, and his wife and children die in the crash. He himself is left in a coma.

%%Don't spoil the Ambiguous Clone Ending trope name - it's not a secret the people in this movie have exact doubles.%%

*** The other Earth is always portrayed as "full" in the sky during the day (The way the Moon is full), it would have to stay on the night side of Earth to do that unlessit was only being viewed at sunrise and sunset.

* ArtisticLicense: The [[TropesAreTools film deliberately]] [[TropesAreNotBad invokes this]] in both [[ArtisticLicenseAstronomy astronomy]] and [[ArtisticLicensePhysics physics]]. Many scifi fans have complained that the film pushes their WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief a little too far, however keep in mind that this movie is a drama about grief and ''[[TropesAreTools not about people running around in terror as the Earth is endangered]]''[[hottip:* :There are plenty of examples of that in fiction already, after all.]].

* ArtisticLicense: The [[TropesAreTools film deliberately]] [[TropesAreNotBad invokes this]] in both [[ArtisticLicenseAstronomy astronomy]] and [[ArtisticLicensePhysics physics]]. Many scifi fans have complained that the film pushes their WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief a little too far, however keep in mind that this movie is a drama about grief and ''[[TropesAreTools not about people running around in terror as the Earth is endangered]]''.

* ArtisticLicense: The [[TropesAreTools film deliberately]] [[TropesAreNotBad invokes this]] in both [[ArtisticLicenseAstronomy astronomy]] and [[ArtisticLicensePhysics physics]]. Many scifi fans have complained that the film pushes their WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief a little too far, however keep in mind that this movie is a drama about grief and ''[[TropesAreNotBad not about people running around in terror as the Earth is endangered]]''.

* ArtisticLicense: The [[TropesAreTools film deliberately]] [[TropesAreNotBad invokes this]] in both [[ArtisticLicenseAstronomy astronomy]] and [[ArtisticLicensePhysics physics]]. Many scifi fans have complained that the film pushes their WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief a little too far, however keep in mind that this movie is a drama about grief and ''not about people running around in terror as the Earth is endangered''.

* ArtisticLicense: The [[TropesAreTools film deliberately]] [[TropesAreNotBad invokes this]] in both [[ArtisticLicenseAstronomy astronomy]] and [[ArtisticLicensePhysics physics]]. Many scifi fans have complained that the film pushes their WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief a little too far, however keep in mind that this movie is a drama about grief and ''not about people running around in terror as the Earth is endangered''. (If you have figured out a way this could have worked then please list it under the WildMassGuessing tab, and not here).

-->'''John:''' You think ''they'' call ''us'' "Earth One?

* PointOfView: [[LamshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in-universe.

* PointOfView: Referenced in universe.

-->'''John:''' You think ''they'' call us "Earth One?

** Probably justified, since Rhoda both has spent four years in prison and is quite clearly consumed with guilt and self-loathing over what she's done once she's released, meaning she's lost her old social circles thanks to the former and is actively withdrawing into herself because of the latter.

** A second planet of Earth-size in our very balanced the solar system really would throw all the other orbits in the inner solar system off.
** Even if the planet had been hiding behind the sun the whole time before it appeared we would have already been able to infer it from its affect on the other orbits in the inner solar system.
** If a planet that close were coming that close to Earth people would be more worried about a collision.
** Ocean tides here on Earth are the result of the moon pulling on the Earth. Another Earth so close as to be bigger than the moon in the sky would send ocean tides over huge swaths of populated land.
** And if it's that close, our own moon would have crashed into it.

** A second planet of Earth-size in our very balanced the solar system really would throw all the other orbit in the inner solar system off.
** Even if the planet were hiding behind the sun the whole time before it appeared we would have already been able to infer it from its affect on the other orbits in the inner solar system.

** OrIsIt: The exact nature of the ending is quite ambiguous. WildMassGuessing ensues.

''Another Earth'' is a 2011 SciFi-drama film made by {{Fox}} Searchlight Pictures. It is about the discovery of [[CounterEarth a duplicate of planet Earth]] and its effects on the lives of two people.

The vision in the sky isn't an illusion; somehow, a duplicate of Earth, with the same people as well, has appeared near our planet, leading to worldwide shock and interest. But the story focuses on Rhoda's and John's lives. Rhoda spends four years in prison for drunken driving, ruining her life. John recovers but falls into despair. Wracked with guilt, Rhoda finds John, but doesn't tell him who she is. Slowly, they start falling in love.

* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Rhoda's counterpart did have a successful life]].