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Film · 2018

Starfish

starring Janis Ahern, Virginia Gardner and Haruka Abe

  • 1 h 39 min
  • Drama · Horror · Science fiction
  • USA

Synopsis

'Starfish' tells the story of an alien invasion and the end of the world. But it is told through a personal prism, focused not on CGI and strange beings created by computer, but on Aubrey (Virginia Gardner), a young woman who returns to the city where she was born to attend the funeral of her best friend, Grace (Christina Masterson).

The friendship did not end as well as Aubrey would have liked, which has especially haunted and worried the protagonist. For reasons she doesn't understand, she feels attracted to her late friend Grace's apartment, so she will go there to stay the night. When she wakes up in the morning, all civilization seems to have disappeared, and besides, she feels something strange that pursues her.

"Starfish" is the story not only of Aubrey's survival in this lonely and strange world, but also of his attempt to solve a mystery that Grace left in ramblings about "signals" buried in radio transmissions and "patterns" in tragedies and natural disasters.

The film is directed and written by A.T. White. In the cast we find Virginia Gardner in the lead role of Aubrey, Christina Masterson as Grace, Eric Beecroft as Edward, Natalie Mitchell as Alice, Shannon Hollander as Charlotte, Elias Brett as Somerset or Tanroh Ishida as Okami.

The essentials

Runtime
99 min1 hour and 39 minutes
How long is Starfish?
1 hour and 39 minutes (99 minutes).
Who is in Starfish?
It stars Janis Ahern, Virginia Gardner and Haruka Abe.
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Reviews

All 2 reviews

What the critics say average 7.3 from 2 outlets

  • 7.5 Roger EbertNick Allen The work of a filmmaker I'm very excited to see and hear more from, ?Starfish? is very much its own sci-fi mixtape?curated with hit and miss offerings, but with an undeniable and meaningful… Read
  • 7.0 Los Angeles TimesNoel Murray It?s a little like a post-apocalyptic survivalist thriller, crossed with Lynn Ramsay?s impressionistic masterpiece ?Morvern Callar,? crossed with a Radiohead video. Not all of those pieces fit… Read

Soundtrack

All 7 songs
  1. PorchlightSeafood Spotify
  2. Ekki MukkSigur Rós Spotify
  3. These Few PresidentsWHY
  4. Gloomy PlanetsThe Notwist

Trivia

  • Credits

    One of the few films which its credits roll from top to bottom instead of the usual, bottom to top.

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