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Actors: Corbin Bernsen, Beth Kennedy, Adam Sutton, Morgan Rusler, Jeanne Cooper, Elizabeth Sandifer, Stevie Johnson
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Tomorrow Man |
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Vick - Victoria - is a cool, wisecracking agent for a secret U.S. government task force, assigned to right the wrongs of the past through time travel. She is at home with her partner/boyfriend when killer Mac and his gang break in and shoot him dead, steal his time remote, and zap themselves 30 years into the past to abduct ten-year-old Bryon Mackey. Enraged, Vick pursues them into the past, where Bryon's dad yells at Mac to release his son. Mac replies, "I am your son," and vanishes with the boy into the future. As Vick enters her co-ordinates to chase them again, Larry touches her, thus propelling himself forward with her through time. Rather than zapping him back right away, she enlists his help in catching Mac.
She tells him that his son, now 40 and known as Mac, faces the death penalty in several states. He turned to crime after growing up torn between loving and fearing his dad. (Larry did love his wife and son deeply, but his good intentions for them were undermined by his volatile temper, and it got worse when he lost his job and started drinking.) Jeanine, once Larry's loving wife, is now his bitter widow, and despises him. Nevertheless, she gives them the address to Mac's warehouse hideout. Larry persuades Vick that just catching Mac and retrieving the remote are not enough; he wants to redo the past so that his son won't become a killer at all. Meanwhile, Mac has his groupie Lucy reprograming the remote so that he can jump into the 23rd century, escaping his life of crime and its consequences, and sparing Bryon his future misery. Vick, Larry, and Jeanine dodge gunfire to snatch Bryon. Vick starts the transmission sequence to take them back to the 1970's, but Jeanine stops it, saying Larry hasn't truly changed, and if they go back now, it will all play out the same as before.
Mac captures Larry. As a prelude to killing him, he takes him back in time to watch himself beating and berating the teenaged Bryon. Back in the present, Larry pleads with Mac for a second chance. Mac just scoffs. But Bryon is watching and thinking. Can he really trust Mac's promises of a nicer future? Or should he trust his father? Using the gun skills Mac has taught him, he makes his choice.
--vjm, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Tomorrow Man |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
**Fantasy or Science Fiction?**
- science fiction story
Time Travel:
- primarily to the past
Time Travel Story?
Yes
To what time period?
- 1960's-1980's
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric:
Yes
- emotionally unstable
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair type
- (man) crewcut/very short
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
Body type
- average (female)
Unclothed?
- very tight clothes
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- killer
Eccentric:
Yes
- deluded
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity
- White
Sense of humor?
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average Intelligence
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
Big cities?
Yes
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Tone of movie
- fearful
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
Is this movie based on a
- book
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