Jerome Bixby's The Man from Earth
by Richard Schenkman
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Actor: Alexis Thorpe, David Lee Smith, John Billingsley, Richard Riehle, Tony ToddDirector: Richard Schenkman
Brand: STARZ HOME ENTERTAINMENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: ANCHOR BAY
DVD Reviews of Jerome Bixby's The Man from Earth
DVD Review: The Man from Earth
Summary: 5 Stars
A great thought inspiring movie. To get all the sub-text and nuance you need to watch it a couple of times. I can't help but think how I'd react if I got a chance to hear this in person. The reactions of the different characters is very intersting.
I love the lines "I always liked you a lot"; "Oh thank you"; "Well that opinion is starting to change." This is an interesting comment between two of the women early in the movie.
I highly recommend this movie.
DVD Review: Watching this movie is like being forced to sit through a remedial philosophy class.
Summary: 1 Stars
Why did this get such high reviews? Does anything ever actually happen in this movie, or are they really going to sit around the room and talk at each other the whole time.
Show, don't tell.
I'm bored. My attention span is too short to sit through this. I'm tired of waiting for a new idea, or for something, ANYTHING, to happen. Blah. Somebody else pick the movies.
"I have to move on." COOL. DO IT. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MOVE ON!!! ARGGGHHH! This movie, with an 8 out of 10 star review on IMDB, has actually succeeded in pissing me off.
Professor Oldman?! OLD-MAN?? If I wrote that, I'd be fired.
It's a trick. I see what's going on here. It's church. The writer wants me to listen to his pretentious existential bullcrap and think it's clever. He wants to make me THINK. But I think ALL THE TIME, and none of this is NEW. I WANT TO PUNCH EVERY CHARACTER IN THE FACE. Why does this movie even need characters? Why does it need a setting? WHY isn't it just a recording of one person asking hypothetical questions, and the writer answering them so he can feel like he made a difference in the world by showing us all his "unique" ideas about the meaning of life.
If you MUST do this to me, show, don't tell. Show, don't tell. Show, don't tell.
ARGH!!! So when something finally DOES happen, the movie ends. I made it though, I actually made it. I survived.
Jerome Bixby, if you were still alive, I'd send you a very unpleasant letter.
The song at the end of the movie sucks, too.
DVD Review: My Dinner With Methuselah
Summary: 5 Stars
It is hard to imagine that any film that consisted of no more than spirited conversation could be so soul stirring. "No more than" does no justice to the impact that THE MAN FROM EARTH exerts on the viewer. Very nearly the entire movie involves a group of college professors sitting around a fire in a cabin discussing the mysteries of the universe and who and what we are. The conversation IS the plot, and we in the audience are as spellbound as the actors who are led to question some very basic assumptions of what it means to be human. David Lee Miller is history professor John Oldman, who, inexplicably, resigns from his job as a teacher. His friends press him for a reason. Oldman considers not saying anything, but you could tell that he needed to unwind. His story: He is an immortal human, 14,000 years old. He has married innumerable times, fathered children, saw the rise and fall of civilizations, and most astoundingly, conversed with some Biblical figures, of whom he was one. His "confession" starts off as a hypothetical, like charades. His comrades play along, asking pertinent questions to dent his story. But little by little, they accept him as what he says he is, and it is at this point, that we in the audience in the theater watching the audience on the screen do likewise. We believe him because we want to. His words flow with the simplicity of truth. And that is the lesson of this tale: that all religion is based on filling in the gaps of barely recorded truth with a covering that we wish were so. Films like THE MAN FROM EARTH are the rarest of all. I felt privileged to share a couch with the lucky professors who heard and believed a great deal more than they would have thought possible. DVD Review: Man from earth is great
Summary: 4 Stars
One of the few movies I have seen in the last thirty years that makes you think. What a wonderful idea for a play, may upset some with a closed mind, but is well written and played.
Will keep you thinking about it for days afterward.
DVD Review: A thoughtful movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is a wonderful trip into fantasy world for those who enjoy questioning the world around them. Definitely not for those who are insecure in their beliefs. Good exercise for the thinking person!
Description of Jerome Bixby's The Man from Earth
On a cold night in a remote cabin, Professor John Oldman (David Lee Smith of CSI: MIAMI) gathers his most trusted colleagues for an extraordinary announcement: He is an immortal who has migrated through 140 centuries of evolution and must now move on. Is Oldman truly Cro-Magnon or simply insane? Now one man will force these scientists and scholars to confront their own notions of history, religion and humanity, all leading to a final revelation that may shatter their world forever.John Billingsley (STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE), William Katt (THE GREATEST AMERICAN HERO), Ellen Crawford (ER) and Tony Todd (CANDYMAN) co-star in this provocative final work by Jerome Bixby, renowned as one of the greatest science-fiction authors of all time.
Based on renowned sci-fi author Jerome Bixby's final 1998 manuscript, Man From Earth is the long-awaited film adaptation in which Professor John Oldman (David Lee Smith) attempts to convince his fellow faculty members that he is 14,000 years old. Shot almost entirely inside Oldman's cabin as he's about to leave his friends and career, the film's dialogue consists of philosophical chatting about the possibility and ramifications of his alleged birth during the Upper Paleolithic era. As his faculty peers are all anthropology, biology, religion, and philosophy scholars, the conversation levels remain high throughout. Oldman's friend Harry (John Billingsley) is well versed in multiple religions as well as in science, while Gruber (Richard Riehle) is invited to the house mid-story to evaluate Oldman's psychological state. Edith (Ellen Crawford) is the Christian voice, considering the religious repercussions of Oldman's assertion. All the while, Oldman's love interest, Sandy (Annika Peterson), remains quietly contemplative and most capable of believing that he doesn't visually age and has seen epochs and historical eras come and go. Humorous scenes, such as when his friends discover a Van Gogh painting wedged into the back of his pick-up truck, keep the story flowing, though eventually heavy-handed conceptualism does make the film sluggish. Similar to some great episodes of The Twilight Zone, Man From Earth does pose enough grand questions about life and death that urge viewers to wonder if such a man could plausibly exist, and if so, what his fate would be. Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of this story is its fusion of spirituality and science by providing viewers a scenario in which proof is impossible, in a world where high value is placed on concrete evidence. -Trinie Dalton
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