Idaho Transfer

1973 "The future is a great place to visit....."
5.1| 1h26m| PG| en
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During a time of waning global resources, a crew of young researchers travel into the future to escape an apocalypse before the shutdown of their time transfer project. They find that some type of disaster has de-populated the Idaho region and, by implication, the nation or perhaps the world.

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Also starring Kevin Hearst

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Karry Best movie of this year hands down!
Scanialara You won't be disappointed!
Helloturia I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.
Stephan Hammond It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
Uriah43 "Isa Braden" (Caroline Hildebrand) and her sister "Karen Braden" (Kelly Bohanon) are members of a small group of scientists who have recently invented a machine which allows people to go forward in time. Unfortunately, upon doing this they discover that humanity is facing a calamity of epic proportions in the near future. As a result they make plans to leap-frog this event by about 60 years in the hopes of survival. Now, rather than going over some of the details and risk spoiling the film for those who haven't seen it, I will just say that this picture seemed like one of those low-budget movies one might expect to see at the local drive-in back in the 70's. Not terribly bad--but in this specific case--not that good either. Although the acting was barely adequate this was probably due in large part to a weak script rather than through any fault of any particular actor. Likewise, there isn't much action to make up for the weak script which caused the film to seem lackluster and lethargic. But what made matters even worse was that sometimes the audience wasn't given adequate information to make sense of it all. The ending is a prime example. In any case, I rate the movie as slightly below average.
MartinHafer This is a cheapo sci-fi movie that just seems to go on and on and on and on. Now if that isn't bad enough, the eventual payoff isn't very good. Which, when it occurs, makes me wonder why the heck I bothered watching it in the first place.The film begins with a bit of missing context--and much of the film is that way. You are unsure what has happened and you only get bits and pieces. Could it be some deliberately odd way of telling the story or could it just be a disjoint film that really wasn't quite finished--I suspect the latter.The movie is about a group of college-age adults. They all use this weird machine to time travel and they MUST take off most of their clothes to use it. Interestingly, they only show ladies doing this!! What the rest of the film is all about isn't all that important...or interesting.Dull acting, a ponderous plot and glacial pacing. Uggh.
hdavis-29 This is the kind of film I usually like and I went into it with reasonably high expectations. Boy, was I disappointed. I've read many of the other reviews posted here before I wrote this. The spare or minimalist quality that others mentioned is true, and I didn't mind it. But there's got to be some kind of narrative thread or tension to go with it. I didn't find one here. In fact, the running time (just under 90 mins) could easily have been 30 mins or 300 mins; it wouldn't have mattered. There was no plot, per se, and that's what's wrong with this film. It does have a vaguely hypnotic quality which is why a 5 hr running time wouldn't have changed my reaction much.One reviewer called it a cross between a brilliant masterpiece and an idiotic mess. The first is certainly far from true. I'd change the latter to "self-indulgent" or maybe "stoned" mess.I'd love to get on board with this one, folks, but I simply can't. The three stars I awarded it are for the skin. I'm serious about this. This IS a time travel movie. It will take YOU back to the '70s and I found it delightful to see those gorgeous young women parading around, almost constantly, in the panties. Gratuitous, yes, but no complaints here.
Woodyanders Peter Fonda's second directorial effort following the excellent feminist Western "The Hired Hand" makes for an extremely atypical and hence compelling post-holocaust sci-fi survivalist message movie related in the form of a subtle, very serious and pertinent ecological parable concerning mankind's selfish, self-destructive nature and careless depletion of natural resources at the expense of our planet's well being. Twelve young scientists (a gawky, scrawny, long stringy-haired then unknown Keith Carradine among 'em) travel to the future to the year 2044 in order to avoid an impending apocalypse and start civilization afresh. The group hike across the dry, arid, desolate rocky terrain, bicker amongst themselves, discover a tribe of retarded third generation post-nuke survivors, and gradually go crazy, eventually degenerating into total murderous barbarism.Although marred by an awkward opening third, wildly erratic acting from a largely amateur no-name cast, occasionally tiresome and over-deliberate draggy pacing, and a few pretentious moments, this still oddly haunting, engrossing and quietly unsettling low-budget curio intelligently makes an important statement about the possible grim destiny of our increasingly callous and environmentally wasteful society. Peter Fonda's spare, low-key, suitably grave and understated direction ably creates a chilling mood of stark despair and horror, while Bruce Logan's pretty, picturesque cinematography offers a dazzling array of lovely, sun-blasted visuals, Thomas Matthiesen's terse, thoughtful, quite novel and idiosyncratic script presents a cogent dire warning future shock scenario with stunning clarity and concision, and Bruce Langhorne's eerie score mines a fine line in spooky'n'shuddery atonal rhythms. Not a complete success, but a nice, admirable, appealingly sincere and well-meaning addition to post-holocaust science fiction cinema just the same.

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