The Sticky Fingers of Time (1997)

User Rating:

5.7/10   

Director:

Hilary Brougher

Writer:

Hilary Brougher (writer)

Release Date:

2 June 2000 (Spain)

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Plot:

A writer, Tucker Harding, is hired to cover an article on the hydrogen-bomb test, Nevada, 1953. While there...

Plot Keywords:

Writer | Time Travel | Future | Soul | Lesbian Interest

Cast

Terumi Matthews	...	Tucker
Nicole Zaray	...	Drew
Belinda Becker	...	Ofelia
James Urbaniak	...	Isaac
Thomas Pasley	...	J.L.
Samantha Buck	...	Gorge
Julie Anderson	...	Dental Assistant of Death
Amanda Vogel	...	Girl in Window
Leo Marks	...	Dex
Justin X. McAvoy	...	Cop
Amanda Cole	...	Rachel the Bartender
Tom Vought	...	'This Guy' in Bar
Alana Jerins	...	Drew's Mother
Rebeka Milkis	...	Little Drew

Runtime:

Canada:90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Company:

Crystal Pictures

Trivia:

Hilary Brougher did not conceptualize the movie as "Lesbian Interest" and did not market it that way. It became 'typed' as such after gay fans approached her at festival circuits.

Quotes:

Tucker: What is this?
Drew: Soy milk.
Tucker: This is disgusting.
Drew: You get used to it.

amazing

I can't say enough good things about this movie. Clever, well-acted, well-written, and constructed with an intricacy and a clarity that just blows me away. This movie is just plain solidly good.

Having said that, I'm amused by the critics I've read who make comments re this film to the effect of "Finally, a sci-fi movie directed exclusively at women!" I'm all for sci-fi directed at women. But let me tell you, as a hetero male sci-fi geek, I have no problem at all settling down to watch a story about time-traveling lesbians. Are you kidding? What is perhaps a bit more unusual in sci-fi is the portrayal of realistic, three-dimensional female characters, and the very natural, and, I'll say it, feminine way that they deal with the bizarre events that befall them. Particularly in genre movies, faux-feminist "strong women" are often depicted as essentially men in female bodies. The central characters in this film are strong people (well, one of them becomes strong) and it has nothing to do with gender inversion, or reversal, or some sort of overthrow of the male paradigm. Or, if that stuff is in there, it's buried deep enough that I didn't feel beat over the head with it.

The world would be a better place if the marketing machine was put to use convincing people to see movies like this instead of, to take some recent examples, Pearl Harbor and Planet of the Apes. The Sticky Fingers of Time made me feel better about being alive. I want the poster. Bravo.