Remarkably Bright Creatures (2026)

[Greg]

Doc Ock and Aunt May form a strange bond in this melodrama set in the Pacific Northwest. Aunt May cleans up after hours at the local aquarium. Doc Ock longs to escape his aquarium and return to the Ocean. Into their life comes Cameron, living in his barely running van, looking for his missing father to get some badly overdue child support. Cameron takes over for Aunt May after she gets injured at the aquarium. Aunt May tries to turn Cameron's life around. Doc Ock wants to help both of them before he shuffles off this mortal coil.

Meanwhile Miles O'Brien, on leave from his engineering job I guess, runs a local market/coffee shop and pines for Aunt May, all the while sporting vintage Grateful Dead T-shirts and reminiscing about the years he followed the Dead.

Yep, it all turns out right in the end despite the various twists and turns. There is even an appearance from Miss Kettlewell from Child's Play 2, so you know it's good.

If you are looking for a good weepy, look no further. No sword fights.

[Drunk Monk]

Meanwhile Miles O'Brien, on leave from his engineering job I guess, runs a local market/coffee shop and pines for Aunt May, all the while sporting vintage Grateful Dead T-shirts and reminiscing about the years he followed the Dead.

You'd think I'd enjoy that but I never cared for O'Brien. Didn't like him in TNG, and liked him even less in DS9. I never bought his relationship with Keiko. I like Meaney's other work, especially in Layer Cake where he played a cool character named Gene. But there's a lot of old deadheads who spend too much time reminiscing in DM's default  reality, so he don't need it in escapist fiction.

[Greg]

I liked him in all the Barrytown movies.