Kirsten
Dunst (Spider-Man, Melancholia) and Jim Sturges (Cloud Atlas, Across
the Universe) star in Upside DownnnZzzz , an interplanetary dystopian romance
about a young man’s search for the long-lost girl of his dreams. Written
and directed by award-winning filmmaker Juan Solanas and set in twinned
worlds with opposite gravities, the film puts an eye-popping, original
twist on the classic tale of forbidden love.
Lovers Adam
(Sturgess) and Eden (Dunst) are separated not just by social class and a
political system bent on keeping them apart, but also by a freak
planetary condition: they live on twinned worlds with gravities that
pull in opposite directions—he on the poverty-stricken planet below, she
on the wealthy, exploitative world above. The planets are so close that
their highest mountain peaks almost touch. That’s where Adam and Eden
first meet as children. And later, as teens, where he pulls her down to
his world by a rope to cavort in dual-gravity bliss (visiting the other
planet does not release a person from the gravitational pull of their
native planet). But when interplanetary border-patrol agents attack
them, Eden falls back to her world—apparently dead.
Ten years
later, Adam learns that Eden is alive and working at TransWorld—a vast
corporation whose towering headquarters is the only structure that
connects the planets—and the only legal means of passing between them.
In a desperate attempt to find her, Adam gets a job at TransWorld
developing a revolutionary face-lift cream based on a secret,
gravity-neutralizing ingredient that has been passed down for
generations in his family. From his lower-world cubicle, he quickly sets
about infiltrating the upper-world executive suites to reconnect with
Eden.
And so begins a quest fraught with dangers and
challenges—from having to woo Eden all over again because of the memory
loss she suffered in the fall, to fleeing authorities through a
topsy-turvy realm where up is sometimes down and down is sometimes up.
Upside Downnzzz is a visually stunning romantic adventure that asks the
question: what if love was stronger than gravity?
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