What if you found out your friend is 14,000 years old?
The Man from Earth is
a 2007 American drama science
fiction film written
by Jerome
Bixby and
directed by Richard
Schenkman.
It stars David
Lee Smith as
John Oldman, the protagonist. The screenplay was conceived by Jerome
Bixby in the early 1960s and completed on his deathbed in April
1998.[2] The
film gained recognition in part for being widely distributed through
Internet peer-to-peer networks,
which raised its profile. The film was later adapted by Schenkman
into a stage play of the same name.
The
plot focuses on John Oldman, a departing university professor, who
claims to be a Cro-Magnon (or Magdalenian caveman)
who has secretly survived for more than 14,000 years. The entire film
is set in and around Oldman's house during his farewell party and is
composed almost entirely of dialogue. The plot advances through
intellectual arguments between Oldman and his fellow faculty members. (From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_from_Earth)
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