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The Man from Earth

Year:
Duration:
87 min
Genres:
Drama | Sci-Fi
IMDB rate:
8
Director:
Richard Schenkman
Awards:
4 wins & 1 nomination
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 2007-11-13
Filming Locations: Agua Dulce Movie Ranch - 34855 Petersen Road, Agua Dulce, California, USA
Cast
Actor
Character
David Lee Smith
John Oldman
Tony Todd
Dan
John Billingsley
Harry
Ellen Crawford
Edith
Annika Peterson
Sandy
William Katt
Art
Alexis Thorpe
Linda Murphy
Richard Riehle
Dr. Will Gruber
Steven Littles
Moving Man #1
Chase Sprague
Moving Man #2
Robbie Bryan
Officer
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Trivia
Richard Schenkman has never met the scorer Mark Hinton Stewart who lives in the UK. They communicated via telephone throughout the process.
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The Tony Todd character, "Dan", mentions that he is gonna go home and watch Star Trek. Tony Todd appeared in seven episodes and one video game of Star Trek since 1990, John Billingsley starred in Star Trek: Enterprise and screenwriter Jerome Bixby wrote several episodes of the original series. Richard Riehle also guest starred in episodes of "Star Trek: The Next Generation", "Star Trek: Voyager and "Star Trek: Enterprise".
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There were no deleted scenes for this movie, only 3 deleted lines, as explained by Director Richard Schenkman in the DVD commentary.
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Goofs
When Linda first arrives to the house, her shoulder bag switches shoulders a few times.
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When discussing Columbus' journey John implies that there was still widespread belief that the earth was flat. In fact, since the time of the Greeks it had been relatively common (educated) knowledge that the earth was round. (Columbus' error was in underestimating the diameter of the earth and thus the distance to Asia by a westerly route. Luckily, he bumped into the Americas where he'd roughly calculated Asia was supposed to be, otherwise they'd have been lost at sea.)
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It the very beginning of the movie, Edith (Ellen Crawford) notices a painting on the ground by the truck and asks about the artist. The dialogue makes it clear she saw the painted surface of the canvas but she wouldn't have been able to see it from it's angle and from where she was standing.
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Quotes
John Oldman: Believe in what He tried to teach without the rigmarole. Piety is not what the lessons bring to people, it's the mistakes they bring to the lessons.
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Harry: [insistent] *You* are creating the mystery here obviously y'have something you'd like to say. Say it.
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John Oldman: I had a chance to sail with Columbus, only I'm not the adventurous type. I was pretty sure the earth was round, but at that point I still thought he *might* fall off an edge some place.
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Faq
Q
What other films are like The Man from Earth?
A
The Sunset Limited (2011), 12 Angry Men (1957), My Dinner With Andre (1981)For other sci-fi "What if" that treat religion and time, wihthout big effects and posing questions, check out Sound Of My Voice (2011), Pimer (2004)K-PAX (2001)
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