Director: Kyra Sedgwick
What happens when a lifelong dream of leaving Earth collides with an inconvenient case of falling in love? Space Oddity follows a man whose ticket to Mars starts to feel a lot less certain.
What is Space Oddity about?
A devoted space enthusiast finally lands the chance he has spent years chasing: a spot on a program preparing colonists for a one-way trip to Mars. Training consumes his days and reshapes his sense of purpose, until a woman he meets outside the program starts pulling his attention back toward the life he was planning to leave behind. As departure gets closer, he has to weigh the mission he has dreamed about against a relationship that keeps reminding him what he would be giving up. Director Kyra Sedgwick frames the story as a grounded relationship comedy rather than a hard science-fiction adventure, keeping the focus on the pull between ambition and connection rather than on the mechanics of space travel.
Cast & crew
Kyle Allen plays the aspiring colonist at the center of the story, opposite Alexandra Shipp as the woman who complicates his plans. Kevin Bacon, Carrie Preston, and Madeline Brewer appear in supporting roles, with Simon Helberg, Andrew Polk, and Arden Myrin rounding out the ensemble around the training program and its participants.
Context & significance
Released in 2023, Space Oddity uses the idea of Mars colonization as a backdrop for a more personal question about what people are willing to sacrifice for a long-held ambition. Rather than dwelling on the technical side of interplanetary travel, the 94-minute film stays close to its two leads, treating the space program as the pressure that forces its central relationship into focus.
Where & how to watch
Space Oddity streams on K-Time with a free account login, and the service's Farsi interface makes it easy for Persian-speaking viewers to find comedy and drama titles like this one alongside the rest of the catalog. A Persian dub is available for this title. Browsing the page costs nothing; only watching the film requires signing in.