
1970, suburban Massachusetts – a place where windbreakers are perpetually in style. The Mooney family embarks on a visit to the Framingham Art Museum. Father JB (Josh O’Connor) seems strangely captivated by some abstract paintings by Arthur Dove, but there’s nothing to hint at an impending adventure. However, Rob Mazurek’s energetic, jazzy score subtly echoes the spirit of 1970s independent cinema, as if Elliott Gould were ever-present, amusedly observing from the sidelines. Terri (Alana Haim), fitting perfectly into the fashion trend of this “Licorice Pizza” era, relaxes on a bench. Their son Tommy (Jasper Thompson) is engrossed in a comic book, while their younger child Carl (Sterling Thompson) chats endlessly about an alien riddle – T always tells the truth, F always lies, and R does so randomly. The family has a private joke of wearing lapel pins with single letters, and JB wears an “F” pin.