Landscape with Invisible Hand is a 2023 American science fiction film written and directed by Cory Finley, based on the 2017 novel of the same name by M. T. Anderson.
Landscape with Invisible Hand premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2023, and was released to theaters in the United States by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures on August 18, 2023.
Their presence has caused unemployment and homelessness due to their new established order, but they attempt to make humans believe that their arrival has benefited them.
Teenager Adam Campbell is an aspiring artist living with his lawyer mother Beth and sister Natalie.
The students' teacher, Mr. Stanley, announces that the Vuvv have deemed him redundant and are eliminating his job in favor of pre-recorded lessons.
Their living situation isn't good, so Adam, having become smitten with Chloe, asks Beth if it is okay that they stay there until they are back on their feet.
The two begin to use their nodes to broadcast every aspect of their relationship, from going to school and spending time together at home, resulting in them earning good money and helping make the house nicer.
The increasing stress and drama takes its toll on Adam and Chloe, and the Vuvv can see that they are forcing their expressions, resulting in lower income.
Beth meets with Shirley and is unable to convince her to change her mind about the punishment levied against her son and his girlfriend, but she recalls a moment earlier in the waiting room when she encountered another curious-looking Vuvv.
Before he can respond, Adam excuses himself for a moment and his father sees his wife sleeping in bed with the Vuvv offspring.
Father attempts to stop her from going, but Beth simply picks him up and gets him out of her way, declaring that working would be better than wasting her time at home with him.
When one of the Vuvv tells Adam to discuss how art made him overcome humanity's barbaric nature, he says he cannot do this and gets in an orb back to Earth in front of his house.
On November 14, 2017, it was announced that Plan B Entertainment had optioned the film adaptation rights to M. T. Anderson's recently published novel Landscape with Invisible Hand.
[7] In February 2022, it was reported that Clifton Collins Jr., Michael Gandolfini, Josh Hamilton and Brooklynn MacKinzie were added to the cast.
The website's consensus reads: "Ambitious and unpredictable, Landscape with Invisible Hand struggles to get some of its ideas across, but remains a bold blend of sci-fi and social commentary.