The greatest danger facing our world has been the planet's best kept secret... until now.
Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a Hitchcockian labyrinth of paranoia and intrigue.
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Contemporary, classical in form, unpretentious and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
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“Is Charlie Sheen miscast as Zane Zaminski?”
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“Are the characters only there to move the plot?”
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“Would a little humor have helped?”
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Cast
- Charlie SheenZane Zaminski
- Lindsay CrouseIlana Green
- Richard SchiffCalvin
- Ron SilverGordian
- Teri PoloChar
- Phyllis ApplegateMrs. Roosevelt
- Tony T. JohnsonKiki
- Alan CoatesTerraformer
- Leon RippyDOD #1
- Buddy Joe HookerDOD #2
Crew
- David TwohyDirector
- David TwohyScreenplay
- Hiro NaritaDirector of Photography
- Arthur KempelOriginal Music Composer
- Martin HunterEditor
- Jim SteeleProducer
- Thomas G. SmithProducer
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