There is something different about Jeff Nichols' Midnight Special. The Mud writer/director is back with a new, hybrid tale of what one set of parents will go through to save their son.
While the stakes involved in saving any child are tremendous, the boy in question, Alton (Jaeden Lieberher), is different. Alton, whom the audience first sees with a pair of swim goggles on despite being under a sheet in a hotel room with the shades pulled and cardboard over the windows just in case, sometimes shoots white light out of his eyes and starts speaking perfectly in time with a radio station that isn't turned on. He even somehow intercepts military satellite transmissions, which, naturally, makes the government rather distressed. Alton has spent the past several years being cared for by a cult who have based their entire religion around him.
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While the stakes involved in saving any child are tremendous, the boy in question, Alton (Jaeden Lieberher), is different. Alton, whom the audience first sees with a pair of swim goggles on despite being under a sheet in a hotel room with the shades pulled and cardboard over the windows just in case, sometimes shoots white light out of his eyes and starts speaking perfectly in time with a radio station that isn't turned on. He even somehow intercepts military satellite transmissions, which, naturally, makes the government rather distressed. Alton has spent the past several years being cared for by a cult who have based their entire religion around him.
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