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American Astronaut, The
Artistic License Films
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Cory McAbee,
Rocco Sisto,
Greg Russell Cook,
Annie Golden,
and
Joshua Taylor
Follows the adventures of an interplanetary trader (McAbee) through his Homeric intergalactic journey to provide the all-female population of Venus with a suitable singular male, all the while being pursued by the cold-blooded and childish killer, Professor Hess (Sisto), an enigmatic figure from his past. (Commodore Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Sci-fi
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Cory McAbee
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Cory McAbee
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: February 22, 2005
Theatrical: September 5, 2001
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| RUNNING TIME: |
91 minutes, B/W |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
Special Jury Award for Original Vision, 2001 Florida Film Festival

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80
Chicago Reader
Jack Helbig
Mott Hupfel II's noirish photography, Pete Beaudreau's smooth editing, and McAbee's wry script are all wonderful, and Dawn Weisberg's costumes are especially killing.

80
LA Weekly
Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
The result is a sui generis, love-it-or-hate-it exercise in homegrown American surrealism.

80
Film Threat
Ron Wells
This musical epic is unlike anything I (or anyone I know) have ever laid eyes on.

70
TV Guide
Frank Lovece
The characters may be one-dimensional ciphers with nothing much to say, but boy, do they not say it with style.

63
Boston Globe
Jim Sullivan
Doesn't really have a climax that works, making you wonder whether all the nutso plot machinations were worth following. Maybe, maybe not. But there were a number of skewed bits that popped out and put a chuckle into this journey.

63
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
A micro-budget black-and-white musical set in outer space, The American Astronaut is obviously not for all tastes -- but it's quite unlike anything else out there at the moment.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
Much of Astronaut comes off as tedious and self-amused, but the musical vignettes are fun.

50
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Rarely funny and straining to reach feature length, The American Astronaut achieves sweetness via its straight-faced take on utter gobbledygook.

50
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
Soars as much as it crashes.

42
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Quickly becomes an endurance test: like watching an old Carol Burnett skit that's not working, or a high school play that's trying to be bad.

40
Variety
Dennis Harvey
Unfortunately that blast-off heralds an orbit to nowhere, with initial delight fading as pic runs out of ideas all too soon, never building a sense of momentum or narrative thrust.

38
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
The best part of this proudly absurd experience is the music.

30
New Times (L.A.)
Gregory Weinkauf
The fleeting moments of dry wit are too sparse to hold the movie together, so instead McAbee takes the kitchen-sink approach, hitting us with whatever he's got.

30
Los Angeles Times
John Anderson
Has been described as a "midnight-style musical." And perhaps it should be seen that way, with a crowd of kindred knuckleheads and some moshing in the aisles.


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