You'd be forgiven thinking that the film is a sci-fi comedy or that Sandler was attempting to pull a Liam Neeson by making a later career pivot into action fare.
As such, there will probably be many fans of the Sandman that log into the streaming service to check out the movie only to be bewildered to find that it instead is a very expensive looking, thoughtful art film in the vein of– one that uses the premise of a spaceman drifting alone in space to explore ideas regarding loneliness, emotional repression, love and connection. Based on the novel Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfař, Sandler plays Czech cosmonaut Jakub who begins the story 189 days into a solo space mission to collect mysterious dust on the edge of the Solar System. To do this, he left his pregnant wife Lenka (Carey Mulligan) alone on Earth. Profoundly upset by his absence, Lenka cuts off communication with Jakub, with the latter's commanding officer (Isabella Rossellini) and technician (Kunal Nayyar) making excuses for the spaceman's wife's lack of communicatio
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