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25 August 1989 (USA)
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Tagline:
We've Been Expecting You. more
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An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster discovers the involvement of an organisation...
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Crash
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Investigator
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Disaster
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Time Travel
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1 win
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5 nominations
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Great sci-fi!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Kris Kristofferson | ... | Bill Smith |
 | Cheryl Ladd | ... | Louise Baltimore |
 | Daniel J. Travanti | ... | Dr. Arnold Mayer |
 | Robert Joy | ... | Sherman the Robot |
| Lloyd Bochner | ... | Walters |
| Brent Carver | ... | Coventry |
| David McIlwraith | ... | Tom Stanley (as David Mcilwraigth) |
| Maury Chaykin | ... | Roger Keane |
| Al Waxman | ... | Dr. Brindle |
| Lawrence Dane | ... | Captain Vern Rockwell |
 | Thomas Hauff | ... | First Officer Ron Kennedy |
| Peter Dvorsky | ... | Don Janz |
| Raymond O'Neill | ... | Harold Davis |
| Philip Akin | ... | Kevin Briley |
| David Calderisi | ... | Raymond Leacock |
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108 min
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The outdoor set used for the 747 crash site was so convincing that pilots landing at Toronto Airport were radioing in what they thought was a recent airplane crash.
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Continuity: After Louise takes a shower, the robot Sherman helps her dress. As he holds up a red uniform top, Louise steps into the item and although there is a zipper in the front Sherman then steps behind her and appears to close the top at that point. Later when Louise turns around, there are no closure items, i.e. zippers, velcro, etc, at the back of the top, only on the front.
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Sherman the Robot: It is not the end. It is not the beginning of the end. It is the end of the beginning.
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Sherman the Robot: It is not the end. It is not the beginning of the end. It is the end of the beginning.
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Referenced in "The Kids in the Hall: (#1.20)" (1990)
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The ratings on this movie are very poor, but don't be fooled this is a great movie. As I was watching this movie, I actually expected most people wouldn't get it because time-travel pictures are usually too confusing for people with linear minds. If a movie doesn't travel in a straight line from beginning to end, then linear people start hyperventilating. Time travel concepts require a slightly more abstract mind to follow properly, and more than a 2-second attention span.
There was some good comedy in the movie. For example the android Sherman, who looked like he came right out of a 1950's B-movie. Then there was the joke about how the people from the future had to smoke in order to stay healthy, otherwise the air in the past was too clean and pure for them. You disposed of the cigarettes by just tossing them over your shoulders and a point laser would shoot at it and disintegrate it instantly. Also this was definitely a 1980's movie, you could tell just by the hairstyles, which were good for a few laughs.
And for a movie made on the cheap, the special effects weren't half-bad. They certainly weren't comparable to today's CGI effects, but they were of a generation of special effects that made Star Wars so successful.
Their interpretation of time travel concepts was also very interesting. For example, they chose to represent time paradoxes as "temporal quakes". I suppose this was done as a dramatisation technique to show the audience how serious a temporal paradox was in terms they could commonly understand (i.e. like an earthquake).
Don't be fooled by the linear minds giving this movie a bad review, if you have an abstract mind, then you'll love this movie.