The movie is a throwback to a time when ordinary people enjoyed simple pleasures like going to their club, or taking in the pictures and growing their chrysanthemums in the adjoining greenhouse garden...so very British.
It is these very ordinary people that some artists have a great sympathy and admiration for in our often self-serving world. Nothing extraordinary about the movie or the couple but almost 60 years on, the acting still makes it a delight to watch.
While driving through the desert with his wife Carol Marvin to a military base to send the eleventh rocket to the orbit of Earth for helping the exploration of the outer space in the Operation Sky Hook, Dr. Russell A. Marvin and Carol see a flying saucer and accidentally records a message in their tape recorder. Once in the base, Dr. Russell is informed by his father-in-law and general that the ten first satellites had mysteriously felt on Earth. When Dr. Russell decodes the message, he encounters the aliens that ask him to schedule a meeting with the leaders of Earth in Washington in 56 days with the intention to invade Earth without panicking the population. Dr. Russell develops an anti-magnetic weapon that becomes that last hope of human race against the hostile aliens.
美丽女孩蕾贝卡(莎拉·博格 Sarah Bolger 饰)是一家女子教会寄宿学校的学生,开朗热情的她在学校结识了许多好朋友,其中金发女孩露西(莎拉·戈登 Sarah Gadon 饰)与之关系最为融洽。二人形影不离,无话不说,亲密无间。新学期伊始,高挑冷艳的恩妮莎(莉莉·科尔 Lily Cole 饰)转入她们的学校。恩妮莎那妖媚的神秘气息令蕾贝卡备感不适,可是露西似乎对其颇有好感,二人越走越近。与此同时,恩妮莎似乎也勾起蕾贝卡深埋心中的不堪回忆。这个恍如从哥特恐怖小说中走出来的女子,究竟藏着怎样的秘密……
本片根据Rachel Klein 同名畅销科幻恐怖小说。