posted 02-03-2026 05:31 PM               

From the 2017 Black List script by Colby Day ("Spaceman"), Andrew Stanton ("Wall-E," "Finding Nemo") constructs an elegantly interwoven triptych that contemplates the essence of humanity across three moments in time.

A Neanderthal family, displaced from their home, struggles to survive, protect the children, and use primitive tools. In the present day, Claire (Rashida Jones), a driven post-grad anthropologist studying ancient proto-human remains, begins a relationship with a fellow student, Greg (Daveed Diggs). And two centuries later, on a spaceship bound for a distant planet, Coakley (Kate McKinnon) and a sentient onboard computer confront a disease afflicting the ship’s oxygen-producing plants.

The artful, poetic way the film's storylines intersect creates a profound, philosophical meditation on how we experience love, loss (of parents and children), mortality and the need for connection — with each other, the natural world, and technology — regardless of our time.