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Asteroid City, Focus Features and Indian Paintbrush present an American Empirical picture ; produced by Wes Anderson, Steven Rales, Jeremy Dawson ; story by Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola ; screenplay by Wes Anderson ; directed by Wes Anderson

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MPA rating: PG-13; for brief graphic nudity, smoking and some suggestive material

Asteroid City

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Focus Features and Indian Paintbrush present an American Empirical picture ; produced by Wes Anderson, Steven Rales, Jeremy Dawson ; story by Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola ; screenplay by Wes Anderson ; directed by Wes Anderson

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Set in a retro-futuristic version of the 1950s, a TV host introduces a televised production of (the in-universe fictional) "Asteroid City," a play by famed playwright Conrad Earp. In the play, a youth astronomy convention is held in the fictional desert town of Asteroid City. (The play's events are depicted in widescreen and stylized color, while the television special is seen in black-and-white Academy ratio.) This comedy-drama film is Wes Anderson's homage to popular memory and mythology about extraterrestrials and UFOs witnessed in the Southwestern desert in close proximity to atomic test sites during the postwar period of the American 20th century

live action