Teddy (Jesse Plemons) and his cousin Don (Aidan Delbis) are preparing to kidnap Michelle (Emma Stone), the CEO of a local pharmaceutical company, for which Teddy works as a box packer, an audacious ploy that if successful will save both Teddy’s terminally ill mother and potentially all of humanity, too. Because despite appearances, Michelle is in fact an alien from Andromeda, cunningly disguised as a human, coordinating devious experiments on cancer patients as she awaits the arrival of her mothership. At least that’s what the terminally online Teddy believes. With their quarry imprisoned in Teddy’s family home, a battle of wits ensues between the resourceful CEO and her delusional captors. A remake of the South Korean film, Save the Green Planet (2003), Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest is an uproarious satire of conspiracy theories and fake news.

The feature presentation contains sequences of flashing lights that may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy or other photosensitivities.

Notes by David O’Mahony