Don't let this low-budget indie get crushed by the summer behemoths. Another Earth offers imagination and provocation to spare. By way of plot I'll say only this: Scientists have discovered a replica of Earth orbiting the sun. This is a game-changer for Rhoda (Brit Marling), an MIT student whose drunken joy ride resulted in the death of a pregnant mother and her son. Only the husband, music professor John Burroughs (William Mapother), survived. Can another Earth offer Rhoda salvation or just deeper damnation? Newcomer Marling, who wrote the artful script with director Mike Cahill, is a talent to watch. She and Cahill have crafted a mesmerizing mind-bender to haunt your dreams.

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“Help Me”

Joni Mitchell wrote and recorded this song for her album Court and Spark, but she had to switch from her regular band to make the song sound exactly the way she wanted. "I had attempted to play my music with rock & roll players," she told Rolling Stone. "They’d laugh, 'Awww, isn't that cute? She's trying to teach us how to play.'" Mitchell switched to a jazz band, Tom Scott’s L.A. Express, and scored the biggest hit of her career in the process.