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Planet Money TikToks inspired one of the year’s most brilliant animated movies

In writer / director Julian Glander‘s new animated sci-fi feature Boys Go to Jupiter, a young gig worker named Billy 5000 (Planet

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Money‘s Jack Corbett) hoverboards his way through life in Florida with only one thing on his mind: he needs $5,000 and is willing to deliver as much food as it takes to make the cash. At first, the delivery guy’s semi-magical, “let’s get this bread” style of thinking seems to stem from his fixation on a hustlebro streamer’s videos. But as Boys go to Jupiter‘s story unfolds, it becomes clear that all of the movie’s characters have odd and somewhat dysfunctional relationships with money.

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