Space Station 76

As a kid growing up in the seventies, I was exposed to just about every cheesy science fiction space show there was, and I’ll be darned if the Liv Tyler movie Space Station 76 didn’t take me right back to my childhood! With its plastic toy miniature special effects, gorgeous women decked out in go-go boots. big hair and false eyelashes and smooth easy-listening music piped throughout, this flick could have easily come out in 1976 and blended right in!

 

 So much of our youth was spent making up stories of us living lives aboard spaceships and being served Jetsons-esque food via computer screens that it was like watching our made up world come to life! They even had Liv Tyler playing a kind of “Asteroids” videogame, a game we loved playing at the local bowling alley, complete with its very basic one-line patterns, oh so much memories!

 Space Station76 tells the tale of a woman (Tyler) flying up to the station as the new assistant Pilot, (and the cause and effect she has upon the crew), but really the movie is more about the little things, Tyler in her Arboretum (think shades of Silent Running) relaxing, a greasy mechanic (Matt Bomer) slaving away in the bowels of the ship, or the stylish community mother (Kali Rocha) looking through a space-age viewmaster (!) for the latest hot 70’s fashions…This movie has made a world I’d just love to curl up in!