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What with their downed spacecraft scattered all over the once-again-wild landscape - gosh darn those destructive meteor showers! - and the rest of its crew dead, and Dad temporarily disabled … well, the only way out of this pickle is for Kitai to embark on a maturity-earning quest to retrieve the signal beam that represents the surviving duo’s only hope of rescue.
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Cypher Raige (Will Smith) and, even more so, as things develop, for his teen son, Kitai - played by Smith’s real-life son, Jaden.
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While the absence of homo sapiens has permitted nature to return to a flourishing state, it’s now full of people-averse predators. Needless to say they don’t exactly get a warm welcome. Night Shyamalan’s coming-of-age drama finds its two leads inadvertently revisiting this crazy old world by way of a crash landing during an intergalactic military mission. Set 1,000 years after humans have been forced to evacuate their environmentally despoiled home planet - get the message? - director and co-writer (with Gary Whitta) M. That’s a bit of advice the characters in the grueling sci-fi adventure “After Earth” (Columbia) - not to mention the real-life folks behind this plodding project - would have done well to heed.
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So, at least, the title of a 1940 novel by Thomas Wolfe admonishes us. NEW YORK (CNS) - You can’t go home again.