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| | History Professor John Oldman suddenly resigns from his University job without telling his friends and colleagues why. They head out to his isolated cabin for an impromptu leaving party, to find him packing up his possessions. He's reluctant at first to say why he's leaving but, as the party progresses, they persuade him to divulge the reason for his resignation. No one's prepared for the amazing story he has to tell.......he claims to be immortal! I loved this film, it's intelligent, thought-provoking and totally absorbing. The actors are brilliant.....some of their academic characters set out to disprove the Prof's claims by reasoned and good natured arguments, while others are upset and angry when the Prof carries on with his immortal claim. The acting's first rate......John's character is jovial and sympathetic to the Professor and John even gets in a Star Trek reference! There are more Star Trek references......the writer, Jerome Bixby, wrote episodes for Star Trek: TOS (Mirror Mirror being the most famous one), Richard Riehle, who plays a psychiatrist, was in the Augments and Cold Station episodes of Enterprise and Tony Todd, who's one of the academics, was in ST S9, ST:TNG and ST: Voyager! An excellent film and I recommend it!  |
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| That should of course be Star Trek Deep Space 9 - I don't know why the smiley's suddenly appeared there! There's a glitch at the mo because I couldn't edit my previous post either  |
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| I'll see anything that Billingsley is in... especially The Nine!
Egan, out!
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| I sorta guessed that by your name!  I loved John in The Others tv show too....it was a brilliant, scary show and I can't understand why it got cancelled. I'm hoping they'll release it on DVD soon! |
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