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Fly Me to Polaris

1999 · 96 min

A bittersweet, gentle fantasy romance that tugs at the heartstrings with its tale of love and loss, leaving a warm afterglow.

Genres
Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Overview
A young man, blind and dumb, works as an audio tape typist in a hospital and fostering a tender and sincere relationship with a beautiful but introverted nurse. When hit by a car, he is the sixty billionth human being to die on earth, and is on transit to Polaris, en route to a yet more sophisticated form of existence in Vega. Given a reprieve of five days and a chance to be reunited with his love on earth, he cannot reveal his true identity behind the temporary facade he must present to her. Both boy and girl eventually learn, through a tangle of difficult and miraculous events, how love and good things always find ways of creeping into people's lives when people are not greedy and least expect these blessings.

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • romanticstrength 3 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • grief
  • fate
  • identity
  • redemption
Places
  • hospital
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour3
Realism4
Romance8
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity4
Emotional weight7

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