Asteroid City

Somewhere in the middle of nowhere in the USA in the 1950s. The Junior Stargazer programme is updated at the last minute when another out-of-town visitor arrives in town. From way out ..

Does the alien bring a message from the universe or even have answers to existential questions? Perhaps. What is certain is that Asteroid City has been declared a no-go zone by the military as a precaution, and so widower Mitch Campbell (Jason Schwartzman) and his four children are stuck in the remote nest. While his father-in-law (Tom Hanks) looks after the grandchildren, America's knowledge of space is shaken and nuclear bombs are tested in the background, Mitch befriends an actress (Scarlett Johansson). If only there wasn't this feeling that the alien is not the bearer of good news ...