In the future, intelligence is extinct.
To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average European-Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events. But when they arrive, they find a civilization so dumbed-down that they're the smartest people around.
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Contemporary, comic, cool and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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18 profiled raters. Loved most by The Ironists; disliked most by The Comfort Seekers.
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Cast
- Luke WilsonJoe Bauers
- Maya RudolphRita
- Dax ShepardFrito
- Terry CrewsPresident Camacho
- Anthony 'Citric' CamposSecretary of Defense
- David HermanSecretary of State
- Sonny CastilloProsecutor
- Kevin McAfeeBailiff
- Robert MusgraveSgt. Keller
- Michael McCaffertyOfficer Collins
Crew
- Mike JudgeDirector
- Etan CohenScreenplay
- Mike JudgeScreenplay
- Tim SuhrstedtDirector of Photography
- Theodore ShapiroOriginal Music Composer
- David RennieEditor
- Elysa Koplovitz DuttonProducer
- Mike JudgeProducer
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