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JFN1

(2,033 posts) Sun Feb 17, 2013, 03:34 AM Feb 2013

Have to share this with you -

We just finished watching one of the most astonishing movies I have ever experienced - low budget movie, to be sure, but nonetheless amazing story, told very well.

It's Jerome Bixby's "The Man From Earth." It's science fiction, but not because special effects or the setting, but because of the subject matter involved.

If you have some time, check it out, I found it on Netflix...think I'm going to watch it again myself...

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Have to share this with you - (Original Post) JFN1 Feb 2013 OP

I'm going to watch that one mokawanis Feb 2013 #1

A very good movie. Simple, yet...riveting. Liberal Veteran Feb 2013 #2

Thanks for the heads up. Actually, about five days ago ... Tx4obama Feb 2013 #3

K&R DeSwiss Feb 2013 #4

Thanks for finding this! JFN1 Feb 2013 #5

De nada. DeSwiss Feb 2013 #6

marking for later nt Mojorabbit Feb 2013 #7

mokawanis

(4,442 posts)

1. I'm going to watch that one

Reply to JFN1 (Original post)

Sun Feb 17, 2013, 03:53 AM

Feb 2013

I like this comment from the wiki article:

"The screenplay for this movie was conceived by Jerome Bixby in the early 1960s and was completed on his death bed in April 1998, making it his final piece of work. The movie gained recognition in part for being widely distributed through Internet peer-to-peer networks and its producer publicly thanked users of these networks for this."

Liberal Veteran

(22,239 posts)

2. A very good movie. Simple, yet...riveting.

Reply to JFN1 (Original post)

Sun Feb 17, 2013, 03:55 AM

Feb 2013

It had the intimacy of a stage play.

Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)

3. Thanks for the heads up. Actually, about five days ago ...

Reply to JFN1 (Original post)

Sun Feb 17, 2013, 04:08 AM

Feb 2013

... I did a search on Netflix for that film because I saw the title on a list of 'movies that take place in one room/location' (I love those type of films) and it said it was unavailable.
I now see that it IS available.

Thanks