"Please Stand By" (2018) Dakota Fanning plays a Star Trek fan

[Tuvix5675]

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Dakota Fanning plays a Star Trek fan/aspiring Star Trek script writer/mentally ill person? Maybe she's not really mentally ill, just strange. I haven't seen the movie, so I don't know how they are going to portray a typical/atypical Star Trek fan. Looking forward to seeing it though, I like Dakota Fanning (she's good in the current TNT series "The Alienist") and Alice Eve is also in it.

 

[FormerLurker]

Early publicity suggests her character is autistic. Dakota Fanning and Alice Eve play sisters in the film.

 

[Shaka Zulu]

Early publicity suggests her character is autistic. Dakota Fanning and Alice Eve play sisters in the film.

She pretty much is autistic (Asperger's) in the movie-what we see in the trailer are the unmistakable signs. Kind of tiring that the film-makers suggest Trekfans are like that when most of us are not. Might give it a look-see when it pops up here in Toronto, or see it on Netflix if I can't see it in theaters (say at TIFF Bell Lightbox.)

 

[Guy Gardener]

I saw Please Stand By 3 weeks ago.

It was a little short on the trekkie elements for my needs.

The dog is a tremendous actor.

 

[Refuge]

The dog is a tremendous actor.

Funny

 

[Forbin]

I saw Please Stand By 3 weeks ago.

It was a little short on the trekkie elements for my needs.

The dog is a tremendous actor.

"Don't do it, Pete!!"

The film was very nice. It was a character piece about an autistic girl on a mission. That the mission happened to be to get her 427-page fan script to Paramount in time for a contest deadline was only the mcguffin. The Trek element was what made me want to watch it, but it was really a movie about an autistic person going on an odyssey that helped her develop emotionally.

Alice Eve is not seen in her underwear. So you know it's a serious film.

 

[Greg Cox]

I see this is available via On Demand. Need to check this out.

 

[JasonJ]

Outside of the Star Trek element, this looks like a good film about people and real humanity. For that, I can appreciate it alone.

Any ST geeking out would just be icing.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Might check this out. Just because not all Trek fans have Aspergers or social issues doesn’t mean we should feel stereotyped when one movie has one character who does. Especially considering how helpful sci-fi can be to people who do have those issues.

 

[Tosk]

Watched it, enjoyed it.

 

[Shaka Zulu]

The critic for the A.V. Club has given it a C in his review: The cloying Please Stand By goes where feel-good movies about autism have gone before

 

[Tim Walker]

Cute trailer! Looking forward to seeing this.