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The Man from Earth is a 2007 American science fiction and drama film directed and produced by Richard Schenkman. The screenplay was written by Jerome Bixby, and the cast includes John Billingsley, Tony Todd, David Lee Smith, and William Katt. The film, which has Jesus as its main subject, was produced by Falling Sky Entertainment and distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment, Netflix, and Fandango at Home. It has a runtime of 87 minutes and was released in the United States.
The film received a budget of 200000. It holds a rating of 7.8 on IMDb based on 218908 votes, a vote average of 7.623 from 2895 votes on TMDb, and review scores of 8.1/10 and 100%. A derivative work titled The Man from Earth: Holocene exists. The film is part of The Man from Earth Collection and is available in video on demand format.
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Film · TMDB
7.6A departing professor gathers his closest colleagues for an intimate farewell, but the night takes an unexpected turn when he shares a stunning secret about his past. As the conversation unfolds, skepticism and curiosity collide, challenging everything they thought they knew about history, science, and belief.
Cast
- David Lee Smith as John Oldman
- Tony Todd as Dan
- John Billingsley as Harry
- Ellen Crawford as Edith
- Annika Peterson as Sandy
- Alexis Thorpe as Linda Murphy
Themes
- immortality
- birthday
- legend
- philosophy
- professor
- psychology
- bible
- time
- survival
- anthropology
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Richard Schenkman
- Written by
- Jerome Bixby
- Produced by
- Richard Schenkman Eric D. Wilkinson
- Starring
- David Lee Smith John Billingsley Tony Todd
- Cinematography
- Afshin Shahidi
- Edited by
- Neil Grieve
- Music by
- Mark Hinton Stewart
- Distributed by
- Anchor Bay Entertainment Shoreline Entertainment
- Release date
- November 13, 2007 ( 2007-11-13 )
- Running time
- 89 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $200,000
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- Jesus
- Director
- Richard Schenkman
- Screenwriter
- Jerome Bixby
- Duration
- 87
- FilmAffinity ID
- 890034
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- manfromearth.com
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- publication date
- 2007-11-13
- distributed by
- Fandango at Home
- title
- The Man from Earth
- aspect ratio (W:H)
- 16:9
- derivative work
- The Man from Earth: Holocene
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 100%
- capital cost
- 200000
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Encyclopedic overview
The Man from Earth is a 2007 American science fiction drama film directed by Richard Schenkman. It was written by Jerome Bixby, who conceived the screenplay in the early 1960s and completed it on his deathbed in April 1998. It stars David Lee Smith as John Oldman, a departing university professor, who puts forth the notion that he is more than 14,000 years old. The entire film is set in and around Oldman's house during his farewell party and consists almost entirely of dialogue. The plot advances through intellectual arguments between Oldman and his fellow faculty members.
The screenplay mirrors similar concepts of longevity introduced by Bixby in "Requiem for Methuselah", a Star Trek episode he wrote, which originally aired in 1969. The Man from Earth gained recognition in part for being widely distributed through Internet peer-to-peer networks, which raised its profile. Schenkman later adapted the film into a stage play.
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