movie poster for THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT

Flicks ID

15961

Cert

12

Running time

91 mins

Country

Format

DVD

THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT (2001)

CORY MCABEE

Plot

What to say about The American Astronaut... It's a heady cocktail of DIY science-fiction, lo-fi musical, transatlantic surrealism and good old fashioned nice-guy comedy. The action revolves around Sam Curtis, a mercenary of the Han Solo school, and his increasingly colourful mission. It begins with the delivery of a cat to a small outer-belt asteroid saloon where he meets his former dance partner, and interplanetary fruit thief, the Blueberry Pirate. Peril comes in the form of nemesis Professor Hess, a bowtied geek obsessed with Curtis, who has been pursuing him throughout the solar system, curiously so that he might forgive him, then kill him. Must-watch stuff, naturally. (Our thanks go to the director, Cory McAbee, for giving us permission to rent his films. His other film, Stingray Sam is also available)