The movie was less about parallel worlds than the protagonist Rhoda coming to grips with what she did as a teenager. She killed a former Yale professor's wife, son and unborn daughter and put him in a coma for months while driving drunk after leaving a high school graduation party. She was set to go to MIT. Instead, she spent four years in jail for the deaths. After she leaves jail, Rhoda gets a cleaning job at a high school. She also cleans ex-professor John Burroughs's house. An essay contest is held for people to win a trip to Earth 2. The SETI spokeswoman ends up talking to an alternate version of herself. Rhoda decides to give her ticket to Earth 2 to John.
I was surprised at how little dialogue there was throughout the movie. I was expecting the filmmakers to do more with Parallel Universe Theory, but there was no view of life on Earth 2, just a view of the duplicate planet in the sky. I would be creeped out by a spitting image of myself (like Rhoda did in the end) as opposed to other intelligent beings from another planet.
Stars: 2.75/4
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