--- title: Netflix's Stowaway Tangles with Morality in Space description: The space drama starring Toni Collette, Anna Kendrick and Daniel Dae Kim is sometimes boring, but still builds a mood of dread and contemplative ennui. canonical: https://time.com/5957147/stowaway-review-netflix/ author: Stephanie Zacharek article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2021-04-22T11:11:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-12T15:42:43.000Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Netflix's Stowaway Tangles with Morality in Space og:description: The space drama starring Toni Collette, Anna Kendrick and Daniel Dae Kim is sometimes boring, but still builds a mood of dread and contemplative ennui og:url: https://time.com/5957147/stowaway-review-netflix/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7edcde068f7ad2f6/698a18ee16d8842005c394cc/Stowaway_01838r_f_rgb.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: STOWAWAY og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Netflix's Stowaway Tangles with Morality in Space twitter:description: The space drama starring Toni Collette, Anna Kendrick and Daniel Dae Kim is sometimes boring, but still builds a mood of dread and contemplative ennui twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7edcde068f7ad2f6/698a18ee16d8842005c394cc/Stowaway_01838r_f_rgb.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Netflix's Pensive _Stowaway_ Tangles with Issues of Morality, and Selfhood, in Space > Sponsored content. 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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account.  by [Stephanie Zacharek](https://time.com/author/stephanie-zacharek/)  ## Stephanie Zacharek Film Critic Updated: Dec 12, 2023 3:42 PM UTCPublished: Apr 22, 2021 11:11 AM UTC  Toni Collette, Daniel Dae Kim and Anna Kendrick find they're not alone in space in 'Stowaway' Toni Collette, Daniel Dae Kim and Anna Kendrick find they're not alone in space in 'Stowaway'JURGEN OLCZYK/NETFLIX—© 2021  by [Stephanie Zacharek](https://time.com/author/stephanie-zacharek/)  ## Stephanie Zacharek Film Critic Updated: Dec 12, 2023 3:42 PM UTCPublished: Apr 22, 2021 11:11 AM UTC When it comes to [movies set in space](https://time.com/5627032/most-realistic-space-movies/), the line between meditative and boring is a slender one. Unless the plot involves slimy alien Gigercritters bursting out of chest cavities, [movie astronauts](https://time.com/4041695/astronauts-the-martian/) seem to spend a lot of time opening and closing one airlock door after another, while occasionally gazing out the window and marveling at the glory of creation. Far from Earth and the humans they left behind there, movie [astronauts](https://time.com/5807225/astronauts-isolation-quarantine-coronavirus/) are often depicted as being largely alone with their thoughts, not the most dynamic thing to dramatize. Still, a quiet space-travel move isn’t necessarily a bad one. The point is to make you feel as if you’ve been lifted off the planet. The rules are going to be different; all bets are off. That’s a roundabout way of saying that Joe Penna’s _Stowaway_—set aboard a ship that was designed for three people and, it turns out, must accommodate four—is a little boring. But it has a mournful, searching quality, similar to what some of the more soulful space movies—like Alfonso Cuaron’s [_Gravity_](https://time.com/3807510/behind-the-moving-image-the-cinematography-of-gravity/) or Brian De Palma’s _Mission to Mars_—tease out. What’s it like to be isolated among the stars with one or two or three fellow humans who perhaps don’t see things your way? And is space really as cool and elegant as the movies—including this one—always make it look, the cosmic equivalent of Italian furniture from the 1970s? _Stowaway_ pulls plenty of pages from the generic space-movie handbook, but it still builds a mood of dread and contemplative ennui, finding its resolution in a final, somber shot.  Toni Collette carries weighty responsibilities in 'Stowaway' JURGEN OLCZYK/NETFLIX—© 2021 The plot is basically drawn from a game of Lifeboat. [Toni Collette](https://time.com/5295637/toni-collette-hereditary-horror-interview/) is Marina, the dutiful, focused captain of a ship headed to Mars. Her crew consists of two bright-eyed members, Zoe ([Anna Kendrick](https://time.com/3846900/anna-kendrick-pitch-perfect-3/)), a doctor, and David ([Daniel Dae Kim](https://time.com/5948169/daniel-dae-kim-combat-bigotry/)), a biologist. David is a Harvard man; Zoe’s all Yale. She’s allocated part of her precious weight allotment to bring along not one but two Yale mugs; she uses one to serve coffee to David as a joke. Let it not be said that serious astronauts don’t know how to have fun. [**_Read more reviews by Stephanie Zacharek_**](https://time.com/author/stephanie-zacharek/) Then Marina notices blood dripping from a panel housing the ship’s life-support panel. There’s a man in there! It’s not immediately clear whether he crawled in and, like a little mouse, fell asleep, snoozing all through takeoff before passing out, or sneaked in deviously so he could be an astronaut too. But no matter what, the newcomer, Michael (Shamier Anderson), presents a problem, and Marina is displeased. It turns out that his presence has damaged the life-support apparatus, and there is now enough oxygen on the ship for only three people, not four. One will have to go. How Marina and the crew handle that decision teases out a number of predictable moral questions, but also flirts with some mild romantic ones—particularly the fact that Zoe might be developing a crush on the new guy.  Anna Kendrick's performance performance here has a quiet, simmering thoughtfulness © 2021, Stowaway Productions, LLC, Augenschein Filmproduktion GmbH, RISE Filmproduktion GmbH. All rights reserved. Personally, I’m not sure I’d want to travel to Mars with Anna Kendrick. Doesn’t she seem a little high-strung for space? But her performance here has a quiet, simmering thoughtfulness, as if Zoe were a person who has always felt just a little out of step on Earth, able to find space scarily freeing. Collette has little to do beyond look at first annoyed, and then resigned, and then anguished by her responsibilities—but Collette, who can do anything, ultimately makes us feel the weight of the latter. The story, written by Penna and Ryan Morrison, has its tense moments, including the requisite spacewalk. Two characters seen as tiny space-suited figures carry out a perilous task, moving an important something from here to there and back again. When we see their faces behind their helmets, they seem vulnerable, exposed, states of being that aren’t the opposite of bravery but the force it must push against. They’re just one step away from oblivion; space doesn’t care about their feelings. And in these moments, as well as during the pensive mission that one character undertakes in the finale, _Stowaway_ isn’t boring at all. The infinity of space is terrifying, but also strangely cozy—as if, without borders, we’re at last free to be our truest selves. **Correction, Apr. 23** _The original version of this story misstated the alma maters of two characters. 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