Not the greedy CEO (Mark Rylance) of a tech company. Not the president (Meryl Streep) and her inept chief of staff/son (Jonah Hill). Jennifer Lawrence plays a doctoral student who discovers a comet heading for direct cataclysmic impact with Earth, and she and her astronomy mentor (Leonardo DiCaprio) are trying to sound the alarm but nobody seems to be listening. Rating: R (Graphic Nudity|Drug Content|Language Throughout|Some Sexual Content)Ī scorched Earth satire that flirts with a literal scorched Earth, Don't Look Up is writer/director Adam McKay's star-studded condemnation of everything stupid and myopic in media, politics, and pop culture. With only six months until the comet makes impact, managing the 24-hour news cycle and gaining the attention of the social media obsessed public before it's too late proves shockingly comical - what will it take to get the world to just look up?! Oglethorpe (Rob Morgan), Kate and Randall embark on a media tour that takes them from the office of an indifferent President Orlean (Meryl Streep) and her sycophantic son and Chief of Staff, Jason (Jonah Hill), to the airwaves of The Daily Rip, an upbeat morning show hosted by Brie (Cate Blanchett) and Jack (Tyler Perry). Turns out warning mankind about a planet-killer the size of Mount Everest is an inconvenient fact to navigate. The other problem? No one really seems to care. The problem: it's on a direct collision course with Earth. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) make an astounding discovery of a comet orbiting within the solar system. Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence), an astronomy grad student, and her professor Dr.
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