Set in a fictional American desert town. The itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention organized to bring together students and parents from across the country for fellowship and scholarly competition, is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events. A film by Wes Anderson.

Augie Steenbeck arrives in a tow truck with his son Woodrow and his three younger daughters Andromeda (Ella Faris), Pandora (Gracie Faris), Cassiopeia (Willan Faris) in his broken car for the Junior Stargazer convention at a tiny town called Asteroid City located near the site of Arid Plains Meteorite where a meteorite fell to Earth approximately 5,000 years ago.

In September 1955, smartest children and their parents are gathering to compete for the $5,000 Hickenlooper scholarship and celebrate Asteroid Day at an annual convention sponsored by the United States Military-Science Research and Experimentation Division and the Larkings Foundation. General Grif Gibson gives his monologue speech.

ASTEROID CITY is visually stunning with intricately crafted world building. (I love the vending machine that sells land.) However, it’s probably one of my least favorite film by Wes Anderson. The stellar cast is amazing but there’s just a lot of things going on, people talking, camera moving, with incredible detail in Wes Anderson’s style.

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