The Age of Stupid (2009)

A future archivist looks at old footage from the year 2008 to understand why humankind failed to address climate change.

Director:

Franny Armstrong

Writer:

Franny Armstrong

Stars:

Pete Postlethwaite, Jehangir Wadia, Alvin DuVernay

1 nomination.

Cast

Credited cast:
Pete Postlethwaite	...	The Archivist
Jehangir Wadia	...	Self (as Jeh Wadia)
Alvin DuVernay	...	Self
Layefa Malini	...	Self
Jamila Bayyoud	...	Self
Piers Guy	...	Self
Lisa Guy	...	Self
Fernand Pareau	...	Self
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Babou Ceesay	...	Self (voice)
Toyah Frantzen	...	Dutch
Mark Lynas	...	Self - Author, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet

Storyline

This ambitious documentary/drama/animation hybrid stars Pete Postlethwaite as an archivist in the devastated world of the future, asking the question: "Why didn't we stop climate change when we still had the chance?" He looks back on footage of real people around the world in the years leading up to 2015 before runaway climate change took place.

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Plot Keywords:

year 2008 | runaway climate change | manmade environmental disaster | f rated | year 2055 | 

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Taglines:

Why didn't we save ourselves when we had the chance?

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Genres:

Documentary | History | News | War

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Did You Know?

Trivia

The film takes place in 2055.

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Goofs

At the end of a timeline depicting the disasters Earth has to endure thanks to man's effect on global warming, an image of Earth is shown. Despite all talk of melting ice caps and rising sea levels, Earth's land mass looks exactly as it does when the film was made.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Archivist of the future: Welcome to the global Ark-ive, a vast storage structure located 800 km north of Norway. It contains the artwork from every national museum. There are pickled animals, stacked up, two by two; every film, every book, every scientific report, all stored on banks of servers. But the conditions we're experiencing now were actually caused by our behavior in the period leading up to 2015. In other words: we could have saved ourselves. We could have saved ourselves, but we didn't.

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Connections

Featured in Pete Postlethwaite: A Tribute (2011)

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Soundtracks

William Tell Overture
Written by Gioachino Rossini
Music Created & Produced by Unique Tracks

User Reviews

This Movie Sets The Record Straight!

Thank The Heavens!! If films like this and al gore are the force behind committing economic suicide then rest assured my follow friends who posses commonsense....we are safe for now! What a self serving holy then thou piece of nonsense this film is. It seeks only to provoke emotion and all commonsense is regarded as being evil earth hating thoughts. You may think this film will only serve to excite the disciples of global warming, but in fact it does much more.....It proves (to the independent thinker) how far the religion of global warming has come, this movie will scare most into avoiding the cult not joining it!!!

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

UK

Language:

English French

Release Date:

20 August 2009 (New Zealand)

Also Known As:

A Era da Estupidez

Filming Locations:

Louisiana, USA

Box Office

Budget:

GBP650,000 (estimated)

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$346,176

Company Credits

Production Co:

Passion Pictures, Spanner Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

92 min 89 min (European Film Market)

Color:

Color