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The Age of Stupid

United Kingdom

2009

92 Min
Color
English
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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DIR Franny Armstrong

EXEC John Battsek

PROD Lizzie Gillett

DP Lawrence Gardner

CAST Pete Postlethwaite, Jamila Bayyoud, Adnan Bayyoud, Alvin DuVernay, Piers Guy, Layefa Malini, Fernand Pareau, Jeh Wadia

ED David G. Hill

MUSIC Chris Brierley

San Francisco, !F Istanbul (Fix the World)

Synopsis

The Age of Stupid is the new movie from Director Franny Armstrong (McLibel) and producer John Battsek (One Day In September). Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?

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KARIKOMI

24Aug11

So pretty much what i got out of this movie was that capitalism/neo-imperialism is to blame for our eventual demise. Um, yea, good one. Also, the whole premise of some isolated survivor in a tower, who seems to have all knowledge of human nature, is a ridiculous and rather laughable concept.

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Ike Cinecult

4Nov10

Stupid film.

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Jane

19Oct10

It was an intersting story and it really illustrate the differences of the environment that people of the world use for living. Well for an economist it is a fact that truly identify why there was pollution in the world and the what the future might be.

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Zarathustrax

7Aug10

Amazing intro!

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By Mox on October 15, 2009

What is the nature of man? So many ways to simply make it easier on ourselves, yet that is not being done. Is the human species suicidal? scary question. As scary as the Nigerian woman who says living…  read review

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Should be this film free avalable in the Internet?

25 posts by 15 people over 3 years ago