It was so much easier back in the days of Romeo and Juliet.

You know, when NASA didnt have to get involved.

(Where was all that rigorous screening they used inThe Right Stuff?)

The Space Between Us (2016)BRITT ROBERTSON and ASA BUTTERFIELD

His bones are too fragile and his heart is too enlarged and too weak.

Plus, his existence is classified.

But really its just an excuse to get him to learn about our strange customs with wide-eyed naivete.

And Robertson has the charmingly feisty moxie of a younger, pre-trainwreck Lindsay Lohan.

But they cant work their way out of the laughable corner that Chelsom and Loeb have painted them into.

At one point, Tulsa actually has to spell out that Gardners heart is too big for this world.

The emo soundtrack and eye-rolling third-act zero-gravity kissing scene dont help matters any.C