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The Man from Earth
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A compact, dialogue-led intellectual drama built around an extraordinary claim, with skeptical friends testing it through history, faith and personal consequence.
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MOVIE2017 1h 38m USA
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01 / THE STORY
One must pay dearly for immortality
The plot focuses on university professor John Oldman, now calling himself John Young, who is secretly a Cro-Magnon man (or Magdalenian caveman) who has survived for more than 14,000 years. However, despite all those years of immortality, John has found that he has begun to age and he no longer heals as quickly as he used to. Meanwhile, four of his students have begun to suspect the truth about him and contact Art Jenkins, whose career fell apart after publishing a book about John's story.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
William Katt
Art
Brittany Curran
Tara
Davi Santos
Doug Haley
John Billingsley
Harry
David Lee Smith
John Oldman
Vanessa Williams
Carolyn
Michael Dorn
Dr. Gil Parker