On
a cold night in a remote cabin, college professor John Oldman (David
Lee Smith of “CSI Miami”) gathers his colleagues to announce that he is
an immortal who has migrated through 14 centuries of evolution, and must
now move on (once again) to create a new identity before it's noticed
he doesn't age past 35. Is Oldman (Old man! Get it?) really a stone age
man or simply a man with rocks in the head? Either way, his revelation
makes tempers flare and emotions flow among these scientists and
scholars in anthropology, biology, religion and philosophy, forcing them
to confront their own notions of history, religion and humanity. The
well written screenplay is by the late sci-fi author Jerome Bixby, who
years earlier had written for “The Twilight Zone” and “Star Trek.” This
was his final work. If you don’t like talk, talk and almost nothing but
talk in your movies, skip MAN FROM EARTH. But I found it engaging and
thought-provoking.
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