
An astronaut returns from her maiden voyage into space only to discover that something seems to have followed her back, and its intentions are unclear in writer/director Jess Varley’s The Astronaut. Captain Sam Walker (Kate Mara) has dreamed of being an astronaut for her entire life. When her first mission to space concludes, she lands in the ocean and is gathered up and brought to shore, only to discover that something isn’t quite right. A black rash on her hand has her a bit curious, and some other physical abnormalities make her military handlers a little concerned, so they quarantine her at a lovely house in the woods for a couple of weeks until she can get the all clear to return to her young...
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