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Title: The American Astronaut (2001)
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Cory McAbee | ... | Samuel Curtis / Silverminer |
| Rocco Sisto | ... | Professor Hess | |
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Gregory Russell Cook | ... | The Boy Who Actually Saw a Woman's Breast |
| Annie Golden | ... | Cloris | |
| James Ransone | ... | Bodysuit | |
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Joshua Taylor | ... | Blueberry Pirate |
| Tom Aldredge | ... | Old Man | |
| Bill Buell | ... | Eddie | |
| Peter McRobbie | ... | Lee Vilensky | |
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Mark Manley | ... | Henchman #1 (Hey Boy!) |
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Ned Sublette | ... | Henchman #2 (Hey Boy!) |
| Joseph McKenna | ... | Doorman | |
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Doug McKean | ... | Silverminer Jake |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Charles Pendelton | ... | Miner at Bar | |
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George Piscopo | ... | Mars Worker |
Space travel has become a dirty way of life dominated by derelicts, grease monkeys, thieves, and hard-boiled interplanetary traders such as Samuel Curtis, an astronaut from Earth who deals in a rare goods, living or otherwise. His mission begins with the unlikely delivery of a cat to a small outer-belt asteroid saloon where he meets his former dance partner, and renowned interplanetary fruit thief, the Blueberry Pirate. As payment for his delivery of the cat, Curtis receives a homemade cloning device already in the process of creating a creature most rare in this space quadrant... a Real Live Girl. At the suggestion of the Blueberry Pirate, Curtis takes the Real Live Girl to Jupiter where women have long been a mystery. There, he proposes a trade with the owner of Jupiter: the Real Live Girl clone for the Boy Who Actually Saw A Woman's Breast. The Boy Who Actually Saw A Woman's Breast is regarded as royalty on the all-male mining planet of Jupiter because of his unique and exotic ... Written by nathue
A true original. I loved this film and the wild wonderful universe that McAbee was able to create on what must have been a $1.80 budget. It has a hypnotic quality, off beat characters, and even a touching father /son relationship.. what more could you want? There is a rousing scene at the beginning when the astronaut walks from his ship to the space bar. His walk goes for some time while a wonderful instrumental plays. If you don't enjoy this part for its simplicity, you probably won't like the rest of the flick. While it dosn't look like this film will get a major distributer ( I got to see it at the Washington DC Film fest with McAbee there to discuss it!) the soundtrack album is available at americanastronaut.com. I'm listening to it as I write this! This is the fist movie in a long time that I have seen that I didn't want it to end.. McAbee knows the first rule of showbusiness: Always leave them wanting more!