Product: Idaho Transfer (1973)
Rating: 5.0
Interesting if thin movie
I saw part of this in the theater (the folks I rode with left early given their dim view of movies).And interesting story of the earth in trouble and time travel. Interesting if some what amaturish acting but still I love this poor move for some reason.A very early performance by Keith Carradine as Arthur. The film was produced by Peter Fonda's Pando Company in 1973.If a sci-fi dystopia fan this one is for you ...Teenager Karen Braden (Kelley Bohanon) is a troubled mental hospital outpatient who is taken by her father George and sister Isa to a government facility near the Craters of the Moon lava fields in Idaho. The project there was commissioned to develop matter transference, but made a different discovery: time travel. They also discovered that a mysterious ecological catastrophe will soon wipe out civilization.The time travel process has negative health effects, though. Adults "not much older than 20" are unable to survive for long, as their kidneys hemorrhage shortly after the experience. So the scientists decide to only send young people 56 years into the future so they can build a new civilization.After the government takes over the project, the transfer machines are turned off, trapping a large number of project members in the future. Now trapped, they begin exploring the future world.