Directed by Peter Chelsom (2017)
by Melissa Strong

What is your favorite thing about Earth?  This is not a question most of us consider, and it may prove as difficult for you to answer as it does for the Earth dwellers in The Space Between Us. Gardner Elliott wants to know, because he was born on Mars in the near future and has spent his entire 16 years there. Gardner is charmingly played by Asa Butterfield, but The Space Between Us suffers from insufficient development of plot and character, compounded by generic schizophrenia -- does it want to be a sci-fi movie? A teen romance? A kid’s search for the parent he never knew, which results in finding himself? A dangerously ill character’s life-affirming road trip, with car chases and explosions for good measure?