Top cast:Carlyle Blackwell,Neva Gerber,William H. West
Director:Auguste Lumière&Alexandre Promio
Genre:History
Region:United States
Year:2023
Storyline:A young black recruit named Francis (Corey Glover) corrected his African-American buddy King (Keith David) as he was scrawling a letter home with a pencil:Francis: It ain""t D-E-R-E, it""s D-E-A-R, and Sarah ain""t got no two Rs, King.He explains pain-avoidance to her:Mrs.Pilletti (serving dinner): So, what are you gonna do tonight Marty?Marty: I don""t know, Ma.I""m all knocked out.I may just hang around he house.Mrs.Pilletti: Why don""t you go to the Stardust Ballroom?Marty: What?Mrs.Pilletti: I say, why don""t you go to the Stardust Ballroom? It""s loaded with tomatoes.Marty: It""s loaded with what?Mrs.Pilletti: Tomatoes.Marty: (laughs) Who told you about the Stardust Ballroom, Ma?Mrs.Pilletti: Tommy.[Tommy is Marty""s married cousin.] He say it was a very nice place.Marty: Oh, Thomas.Ma, it""s just a big dance hall, that""s all it is.I been there a hundred times.Loaded with tomatoes - boy, you""re funny, Ma.Mrs.Pilletti: Marty, I don""t want you to hang around the house tonight.I want you to go take a shave and go dance.Marty: (pleading) Ma, when you gonna give up? You got a bachelor on your hands.I ain""t never gonna get married.Mrs.Pilletti: You""re gonna get married.Marty: Ma, sooner or later, there comes a point in a man""s life when he""s gotta face some facts.And one fact I gotta face is that, whatever it is that women like, I ain""t got it.I chased after enough girls in my life.I-I went to enough dances.I got hurt enough.I don""t wanna get hurt no more.I just called up a girl this afternoon, and I got a real brush-off, boy! I figured I was past the point of being hurt, but that hurt.One of their crew members, a little, misshapen-headed alien creature collecting vegetation (a redwoods tree sprout or sapling) reaches his two fingers out toward the green plant.He was able to conjure up a projected, holographic AI vision of an unidentified figure (his real father Jor-El) who kept walking away without speaking.Smith (ABC-TV), John Chancellor (NBC-TV), Walter Cronkite (CBS-TV), and a fictional fourth-place network, the Union Broadcasting System (UBS-TV), with silver-haired, veteran news anchor Howard Beale (Peter Finch).