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The Man from Earth
Directed by Richard Schenkman
A departing professor gathers his closest colleagues for an intimate farewell, but the night takes an unexpected turn when he shares a stunning secret about his past. As the conversation unfolds, skepticism and curiosity collide, challenging everything they thought they knew about history, science, and belief. From TMDB
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The Man from Earth is a 2007 science fiction drama film, directed by Richard Schenkman, starring David Lee Smith, Tony Todd and John Billingsley.
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60 of 146 · most liked firstThe Man from Earth is an actual top tier 2007 atheism movie you're welcome. I'm an agnostic now but if you go in blind and understand the budget it's super interesting IMO. Screenplay originally from a writer for Twilight Zone and Star Trek finally produced in 2007. youtu.be/HAX2RuZm-Fk
positive · AI labelView post →Dang. Also, a role in the great movie "The Man From Earth"
neutral · AI labelView post →You are the very first reference to The Man From Earth I have ever seen in the wild. It is my favorite film.
positive · AI labelView post →Have you ever seen the movie 'The Man From Earth"? There is a bit in there about this topic. Currently available on Prime
neutral · AI labelView post →The film "The Man from Earth" impressed me with its dialogue between a professor who claims to be 14,000 years old and his fellow scientists. The film's discussion, which was grounded in scientific facts, was not brilliant, but it was good.
neutral · AI labelView post →I wanna talk briefly about a science fiction movie I just watched that has now become one of my favorites ever, and I found it in full on YouTube, called The Man From Earth. youtu.be/HAX2RuZm-Fk?...
positive · AI labelView post →I know this is of no interest or importance whatsoever, but I'm going to say it anyway: I'm watching Graham Norton and I don't think I'd have a particularly fun night at the pub with Taylor Swift. Maybe I'm wrong; maybe she really likes the 2007 film the Man from Earth or something, but I doubt it.
neutral · AI labelView post →I just watched a whole movie, an hour and a half, couldn't even move from my seat, it's such a simple premise, but it's so well executed, such a simple story with so many appealing characters. I think I have a new favorite movie, The Man from Earth.
positive · AI labelView post →Two The Man From Earth references in this thread. I've never seen it mentioned anywhere in the wild before. Top tier, favorite film.
positive · AI labelView post →Happy TOSS Birthday to Jerome Bixby! He wrote several classic TOS episodes, as well as Twilight Zone, and many others. Also an amazing film The Man From Earth. Very heady stuff involving immortality. Really it's Requiem for Methuselah expanded. #TOSSatNight
neutral · AI labelView post →- Arrival - Contact - BBC’s Planet Earth series - The Good Place (TV series on Netflix) - every Pixar movie ever made - The Blind Side - The Man From Earth - The Pink Panther (2006 and 2009 versions) - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (innuendos but very PG)
neutral · AI labelView post →I really like this movie Tony Todd was in called The Man From Earth. It’s from 2007 and it’s a very low budget sci-fi movie that is just a handful of characters talking in a room. I found the story itself to be compelling nonetheless! youtu.be/gINGvZ5a5Wo?...
positive · AI labelView post →One of my favorite underrated movies is The Man From Earth (2007) David Lee Smith, Tony Todd, and John Billingsley are so good in it. More of a filmed play than a movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Thinking about my favourite Tony Todd appearance and (after the visitor), it's probably the Man From Earth. Deeply underrated film.
positive · AI labelView post →Share one of your 'Secret Favourite' films. Not a film everyone knows you love, but one you love that you rarely, if ever, show love for.🎥🤫🖤 The Man From Earth (2007) is fantastic. Go in knowing nothing. Starring Trek faves John Billingsley, Tony Todd, and Richard Riehle.
positive · AI labelView post →Just Watched 📽️: The Man From Earth (2007) Acting, dialogue and pacing is very "TV movie". 5 mins in I didn't think I'd get through it. The rest went quickly. Ended up being an engaging campfire story/thought experiment. It all takes place in a single room. Worth a watch: yeah #MovieSky #movie 🎬
positive · AI labelView post →Finally watched The Man From Earth. A recommendation from @zenzuke.bsky.social (thanks) in a sci-fi movie thread several months ago. Absolutely loved it. Gives you a lot to think about long after it ends. Highly recommended.
positive · AI labelView post →Got me thinking of "The Man From Earth" 'cause he was in it and I hadn't seen him in anything in a long time. Interesting movie! (IMO anyway...)
positive · AI labelView post →Watched Speed with the 12 year old last night. She loved it. After she went to bed I watched The Man From Earth and I think that is my favorite movie of all time.
positive · AI labelView post →felt like watching interstellar, i thought it was going to be trash but was pretty good actually :). Still The Man from Earth is the best movie ive seen(NOTHING is going to beat this film)
positive · AI labelView post →Yesterday someone pointed out that Scientology wasn't a thing in 1923. 1923 was the year Bixby was born and this is a quote from his 2007 film script 'The Man From Earth'. I merely choose a quote from the author of the day. Someone else told me I was going to hell as a heretic. Goodness me!
neutral · AI labelView post →The Man from Earth (2007) directed by Richard Schenkman, starring David Lee Smith, Tony Todd, John Billingsley, Ellen Crawford, Richard Riehle, and others. Proof that a fantastic film doesn't need any CGI, just a great story.
positive · AI labelView post →Not sure if it quite counts but The Man From Earth (2007) has stuck with me. The sequel is equally good but you must have watched the first movie for it to land properly.
positive · AI labelView post →In the movie The Man From Earth, it's revealed that he studied with the Buddha and then traveled back west to find the Roman Empire and tried to teach what he'd learned in the east.
neutral · AI labelView post →Getting to know me through media My all time faves: Game - Metro 2033 Redux Movie - The Man from Earth Show - Gravity Falls Album - The Stranger
positive · AI labelView post →Last night rewatched a 2007 movie called, "The Man from Earth". Rotten Tomatoes-100%! A professor is departing and his colleagues throw him an impromptu "going away party" and, at that gathering, the professor lets slip that he is 14,000 years old. History and religion come under the microscope.
positive · AI labelView post →I wish the sequel to the Man from Earth was half as good as the original. The entire movie (the original) is just a room full of friends talking and it's incredible.
positive · AI labelView post →I was just reminded that The Man From Earth is a movie that exists, which is still weird to think about. "What if someone made a feature length film out of a single issue of Neil Gaiman's Sandman and had almost the entire movie take place in a random woman's living room?" is...a thing that happened
neutral · AI labelView post →#MovieSky The Man from Earth youtube.com/watch?v=HAX2...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Man from Earth (2007) Director: Richard Schenkman With: David Lee Smith Maybe it is because I am such a big Highlander fan, but I didn't really enjoy this film about a 14 000 year old man. I found it psychologically implausible. #FilmSky
negative · AI labelView post →10 June 2007: Sci-fi drama ‘The Man From Earth’, directed by Richard Schenkman, premiered at Another Hole in the Head Genre Film Festival in San Francisco. Rotten Tomatoes score: 100%* IMDb score: 7,8/10 (*Popcornmeter: 85%) #FilmSky #MovieSky #TodayAtTheMovies
neutral · AI labelView post →just watched this (fictional) movie the Man from Earth where they propose that Jesus was a follower of the Buddha whose message got incredibly distorted Did you know Jesus drove a Honda? He didn’t really talk about it though. “For I did not speak of my own Accord” -John 12:49
neutral · AI labelView post →watched The Man From Earth and logged it on letterboxd (letterboxd.com/magdanave/ if you want to stalk my movie watching) and saw they made a sequel which sounds like the most godawful dreck so I will simply go on with life and forget that exists
positive · AI labelView post →My Super-Talky Movie Insomnia Festival continued last night with THE MAN FROM EARTH, a precious little jewel of a one-act I hope I’ll revisit every 5 years or so. When we lost Tony Todd a few months back this was under-discussed as one of his great performances.
positive · AI labelView post →Supremely underrated and probably little known role of his was in the film "The Man From Earth", a sci-fi tale about a man who claims to be immortal. Todd plays an anthropology professor and the character in the film who plays off and explores the supposed immortal's claims best. Must see.
neutral · AI labelView post →I would like a 'Has fallen' franchise film, but it's totally dialogue based I like both the 'Has Fallen' films and dialogue based films, The Man from Earth, for example
neutral · AI labelView post →Of course! I thoroughly enjoy it and hope you do too That, and although technically not time travel, I really love a movie called The Man from Earth about an immortal
positive · AI labelView post →No questions from me today but I love The Man From Earth (2007), it shows how you can have an interesting movie take place in 1 and a half set locations.. Its presented with an Open Scientific mind that I can only compare to my times in 'the conversation pit'. Its a Talky. youtu.be/ASBKSUQ8wRw
positive · AI labelView post →Richard Riehle (Office Space...) has reportedly died & will be added to my 2026 Geeky Goodbyes (The Man from Earth: Star Trek: Voyager...) "Richard Riehle, dependable TV and film character actor who was in 'Glory' and 'Office Space,' dies - ABC News" share.google/12pcyWvGCFcC...
neutral · AI labelView post →he is incredible in The Man From Earth (2007) read nothing about it beforehand it is a movie where people in a room and talk for 90 minutes and it is amazing
positive · AI labelView post →RIP Richard Riehle. I recommend the movie The Man From Earth which he is in. It’s a sci-fi movie that is entirely just characters talking and I think it’s just great.
positive · AI labelView post →The Man from Earth is a movie I think about a lot and Richard Riehle’s role in it has a lot to do with that “Will you be at my funeral, John?” RIP youtu.be/nDTSdnXXikg
positive · AI labelView post →The Man from Earth | #MovieAnimeX Ratings: MovieAnimeX: 8.5/10 A professor claims he has been alive for 14,000 years. Just one room and pure conversation, yet impossible to stop watching. Underrated classic. #TheManFromEarth #HiddenGem #Movie #MovieAnimeX
neutral · AI labelView post →The Man From Earth is an ok, kind of boring movie that fails to stick the landing. The Man From Earth Holocene is just a bafflingly stupid movie that decided that what the first movie needed was a horny college student who wants to fuck The Man From Earth.
neutral · AI labelView post →I just watched a terrific film on Prime called #TheManFromEarth about a man from the Upper Palaeolithic - it’s sci-fi but also a sort of play. Great fun, and it’s got John Billingsley from #startrek in it. Has anyone seen the sequel and is it any good?
positive · AI labelView post →The Man From Earth. Great movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Ex Machina, Arrival, and Moon are the best sci-fi films of this century, IMO. Blade Runner 2049 and Annihilation are both excellent. The Man from Earth is more of a filmed stage play than a typical film, but the entire thing is incredible.
positive · AI labelView post →What’s an #UnderratedMovie more people should take the time to watch in your opinion? My pick is The Man from Earth. #FilmSky
positive · AI labelView post →Give me your favorite Non-Trek performance from a Star Trek actor: Tony Todd and John Billingsley in "The Man from Earth"
neutral · AI labelView post →Just rewatched “The Man from Earth”. Awesome movie! Thoroughly engrossing from start to finish.
positive · AI labelView post →The Man From Earth (2007) Incredibly low-budget sci-fi movie that's just a bunch of friends talking for a few hours. Fascinating thought experiment driven by brilliant group dynamics that takes you through the stages of grief over a difficult to believe revelation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gING...
neutral · AI labelView post →Well, The Man from Earth (2007) did a film about that too...
neutral · AI labelView post →Excited to rewatch a film I covered last year as part of #ReviewStew Next up in the #BingeMoviesChallenge The Man From Earth (2007) #BingeMovies scenethatreviews.com/the-man-from...
neutral · AI labelView post →15. The Man From Earth (2007) A professor tells friends he is an immortal man at his going away party. This was a very cerebral movie. Old school Science-Fiction. Good use of space for being low budget. Only complaint was the pivot into psudo-mysticism of John. Overall worth a watch. - Liked -
positive · AI labelView post →THE MAN FROM EARTH (2007) -I honestly love movies with a budget of $2 that are entirely people talking in one location. I'm not joking, it's one of my favorite genres -definitely a film written from a certain lens and not really to its benefit -i bet John gives insane dick
neutral · AI labelView post →I occassionally rewatch "The Man From Earth" to laugh not at the movie, but at my younger self thinking it was so deep.
negative · AI labelView post →Best movie since in the same sort of 'all conversation' genre - The Man From Earth written by the legendary Jerome Bixby.
neutral · AI labelView post →I liked this movie. But I do like solid-premise single-location indie #scifi +weird films (The Man From Earth, Circle). It’s actually possible to shoot them($) & they are more like plays in terms of dialogue/character driving discovery/weirdness. Would be v fun on the acting side! Congrats to them
positive · AI labelView post →Tonight I'm Watching "The Man from Earth" (2007).
neutral · AI labelView post →To be CLEAR I am not inordinately old :) Watched the second film The Man from Earth Holocene Great film almost as good as the first Didn't like the way it ended though like they could figure how to wrap it up I feel an affinity with John I feel like I have learned/experienced perhaps too much
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