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Idaho Transfer

  • 1973
  • PG
  • 1h 26m
IMDb RATING
5.2/10
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Idaho Transfer (1973)
Sci-Fi

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 t... Read allDuring 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 perha... Read allDuring 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. Facing an unknown, barren future of abandoned towns and deserted vehicles, v... Read all

  • Director
    • Peter Fonda
  • Writer
    • Thomas Matthiesen
  • Stars
    • Kelly Bohanon
    • Kevin Hearst
    • Caroline Hildebrand
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.2/10
    988
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    • Director
      • Peter Fonda
    • Writer
      • Thomas Matthiesen
    • Stars
      • Kelly Bohanon
      • Kevin Hearst
      • Caroline Hildebrand
    • 45User reviews
    • 31Critic reviews
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    Kelly Bohanon
    • Karen Braden
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    Kevin Hearst
    • Ronald
    Caroline Hildebrand
    • Isa Braden
    Keith Carradine
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    • Arthur
    Dale Hopkins
    • Leslie
    Fred Seagraves
    • Dr. Lewis
    Ted D'Arms
    • George Braden
    Joe Newman
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    Susan Kelly
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    Meredith Hull
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    Roy B. Ayers
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    Judy Motulsky
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    Kim Casper
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    • Trivia
      The film was released theatrically in 1973 for only a limited time, as the distributor - Cinemation - went bankrupt during the first week the film was released. Only in 1988 did the film resurface on video, through MPI Home Video. Only this version has Peter Fonda's opening remarks about the environment. Subsequent DVD releases do not include this.
    • Goofs
      When Karen returns to the camp to find everyone dead, in the establishing shot, her face is caked with dirt, but in subsequent close-ups, and all other shots, her face is clean.
    • Quotes

      Future Girl: Are you sure that was one of them?

      Future Woman: Of course it was.

      Future Girl: What happens when we run out?

      Future Woman: We just put another one in. We won't need another for quite aways.

      Future Girl: I didn't mean that. I meant what if we run out of all of them or we can't even find any?

      Future Man: They'll figure out another way for us.

      Future Woman: We can use something else.

      Future Girl: But what if that's too hard or expensive and what if they decide they can't change? We'll use each other then, won't we?

    • Crazy credits
      Esto Perpetua
    • Alternate versions
      Video has a 1988 introduction by Peter Fonda speaking about environmental awareness.
    • Connections
      Referenced in My Own Private Idaho (1991)

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    Grassroots sci-fi semi-succeeds, but it's a "juggler with one ball" type of thing.
    A successful time-travel project, facilitated with the help of a group of students, is sabotaged by the government when it is revealed that a non-specified disaster(possibly apocalyptic in scale) is mankind's looming fate. The quest for conclusive details in this future event yields a most unexpected outcome.

    IDAHO TRANSFER is a curious little item made under obvious financial constraint by some of the era's more adventurous personages on the indie film-making fringe. Though mostly off-target, it does benefit from capable direction, an intriguing premise, and a clever, trenchant conclusion.

    This isn't your run-of-the-mill science-fiction story, nor is it a wonderwork of special effects wizardry. It's a subdued film...an earthy, phlegmatic "anti-Hollywood" undertaking which had the potential to materialize as something greater than it is. Sadly, the feeling is more of indifference than enthusiasm at the pith of this project. By and large, IDAHO TRANSFER feels like a vague transparency of what it intended to be...the film's concrete-minimalist iconography is utterly de-trop, as is the intentional and somewhat dissociative impassivity of the cast. They approach their roles with, presumably, veristic inspiration...that method of "non-acting" which aims to italicize a mien of hyper-realism. The poker-faced performances in play could only be called "realistic" if reality was a world full of freshly lobotomized potheads with a collective Asperger-ish countenance. There's an irony here, however...oddly enough, the aforementioned shortcomings also give rise to a unique atmospheric carriage of cold austerity. It is this air of encircling paucity and lost, lonely detachment which gives IDAHO TRANSFER an interesting singularity of sorts. It's a misfire, more than not...but to its credit, it's a misfire comparable to little else.

    5/10.
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    • Nov 10, 2003

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    • Release date
      • June 15, 1973 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Expedition in die Zukunft
    • Filming locations
      • Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, Idaho, USA
    • Production companies
      • Kathleen Film Productions Company
      • Pando Company
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 26 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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