Millennium DVD 1989 / Directed by Michael Anderson / Starring: Kris Kristofferson, Cheryl Ladd, Daniel J. Travanti

UPC 5037115058737

REGION 2 PAL DVD

MADE IN EU

AUDIO: English 2.0

Subtitles: English

Total Runtime: 101 minutes

English Summary:

Millennium is a 1989 science fiction film directed by Michael Anderson and starring Kris Kristofferson, Cheryl Ladd, Robert Joy, Brent Carver, Al Waxman and Daniel J. Travanti. The original score was composed by Eric N. Robertson. It was marketed with the tagline "The people aboard Flight 35 are about to land 1,000 years from where they planned to."

Millennium is based on the 1977 short story "Air Raid" by John Varley. Varley started work on a screenplay in 1979, and released the expanded story in book-length form in 1983 as Millennium.

In 1989, while on its landing approach, a U.S. commercial jet is about to be struck by another plane from above. The pilot struggles to control the plane while the first officer checks the passenger cabin. He returns to the cockpit yelling that everyone is dead and the corpses are burned

National Transportation Safety Board investigator Bill Smith investigates the accident. He and his team are confused by the first officer's words on the cockpit voice recorder, as there is no evidence of a fire before the crash. Meanwhile, theoretical physicist Dr. Arnold Mayer is professionally curious about the crash, which borders on science fiction. In a lecture, he discusses the possibility of visits from time travelers.

In the future, pollution has rendered humans unable to reproduce. Teams are sent into the past to abduct people who are about to die; the plane crashes were part of this plan. The abductees are kept in stasis until they can be sent into the far future to repopulate the Earth. Most of the current population is in poor health but the time travelers—mostly women—are relatively healthy and are given the best food and care to pass for 20th-century humans. Present-day air is too clean for the time travelers to process; they smoke cigarettes to mimic their own timeline's atmosphere.

Cast

• Kris Kristofferson as Bill SmithCheryl Ladd as Louise Baltimore
  • Jamie Shannon as Young Bill Smith
• Daniel J. Travanti as Dr. Arnold Mayer
• Robert Joy as Sherman the Robot
• Lloyd Bochner as Walters
• Brent Carver as Coventry
• David McIlwraith as Tom Stanley
• Maury Chaykin as Roger Keane
• Al Waxman as Dr. Brindle
• Lawrence Dane as Captain Vern Rockwell
• Thomas Hauff as First Officer Ron Kennedy