Extra-Terrestrial

[Available on various VOD platforms.] While a successful, vegetarian, 33-year-old astrophysicist (Marisé Álvarez) is stressed out trying to reveal to her straitlaced, conservative family, including her closeted singing mother (Elba Escobar), her supportive sister (Laura Aleman) who is secretly in love with a mechanic, her genius nephew (Mauricio Alemañy) who has Asperger's Syndrome and is fascinated with astronomy, and her brother (Yamil Collazo), that she is marrying her longtime gay lover (Prakriti Maduro) in the Canary Islands when she returns home to Puerto Rico after seven years in Carla Cavina's poignant, engaging, well-acted, award-winning, 110-minute, 2016 film highlighted by gorgeous cinematography, her controlling, hardworking father (Sunshine Logroño), who owns a large chicken farm and is on the verge of a possible bankruptcy, deals with unfair laws, the USDA, and political corruption.
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