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Millennium (1989) Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1989
Running Times: 108 mins
Format: colour 35mm
Ratio: 1.85:1
Sound: Dolby CREDITS PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Gladden Entertainment Corporation / First Millennium
Executive Producers: Freddie Fields, John Foreman, P. Gael Mourant, Louis M. Silverstein
Supervising Producer: John M. Eckert
Producer: Douglas Leiterman
Co-Producer: Robert Vince
VP Production: Courtney Silberberg
Production Manager: Dan Nyberg SCRIPT
Script: John Varley
Short Story: Air Raid by John Varley DIRECTION
Director: Michael Anderson
2nd Unit Director: John Harris
1st Assistant Director: Michael Zenon
2nd Assistant Director: Bill Bannerman
3rd Assistant Director: Greg Zenon PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: René Ohashi
2nd Unit Photography: John Harris
Underwater Photography: Doug Phillips
Steadicam Operators: Jon Cassar, Julian Chojnacki, Robert Crone
Underwater Stills: Nicholas Constantinou
Colour: DeLuxe
Cameras: Arriflex Cameras
Labs: Film House Ltd, USA EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Ron Wisman MUSIC
Music: Eric N. Robertson
Orchestrators: Eric N. Robertson, Rick Wilkins SOUND
Production Sound: Douglas Ganton
Supervising Sound Editor: Jim Hopkins
Sound Effects Editor: Alan Hardiman MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Barbara Palmer
Hair: Albert Paradis
Costume Designer: Olga Dimitrov SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Light and Motion
Special Effects Supervisor: Kaz Kobielski
Special Effects: David L. Hewitt
Special Effects Technician: Arthur Langevin SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Special Make Up Effects: Paul Mejias
Special Prosthetic Make Up: Bob Laden VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Consultant: Harrison Ellenshaw
Matte Paintings: Syd Dutton, Bill Taylor, Albert Whitlock
Visual Stylist Consultant: Anthony Cortino
Motion Control Photography: Michael Lennick DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Gene Rudolf
Art Director: Charles Dunlop
Set Decorator: Jacques M. Bradette
Set Dressers: Dan Conley, Caroline George
Property Master: Dan Sissons
Assistant Propmaster: Colin Matthews MISCELLANEOUS
Aircraft Coordinators: Ron Barker, Dustin Bell
Robot Choreography: Glen Kotyk
Publicist: Brad Stephens
Picture Vehicle Coordinator: William L. Tataryn
Helicopter Services: Ken d'Áttilio Inter-Island Helicopter LOCATIONS
Locations: Toronto, Ontario, Canada STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Shane Cardwell
Stunts: Marco Bianco, Dennis Christensen, Rick Forsayeth, Ted Hanlan, Robert L. Hannah, Jamie Jones, Debbie Kirby, Leslie Munro, Ken Quinn, Branco Racki, Dan Redford, Alison Reid, T.J. Scott, Suzanne Smith, John Stoneham Jr, John Stoneham, Jérôme Tiberghien CASTING
Casting: Deirdre Bowen CAST
Kris Kristofferson (Bill Smith)
Cheryl Ladd )Louise Baltimore)
Daniel J. Travanti (Dr Arnold Mayer)
Robert Joy (Sherman the robot)
Lloyd Bochner (Walters)
Brent Carver (Coventry)
David McIlwraith (Tom Stanley)
Maury Chaykin (Roger Keane)
Al Waxman (Dr Brindle)
Lawrence Dane (Vern Rockwell)
Thomas Hauff (Ron Kennedy)
Peter Dvorsky (Janz)
Raymond O'Neill (Harold Davis)
Philip Akin (Briley)
David Calderisi (Raymond Leacock)
Gary Reineke (Ian Carpenter)
Eugene Clark (Craig Ashby)
Cedric Smith (Eli Seibel)
Michael J. Reynolds (Jerry Bannister)
Victoria Snow (Pinky Djakarta)
Susannah Hoffman (Susan Melbourne)
Claudette Roach (Inez Manila)
Barry Meier (helicopter pilot)
James Kirchner (foreman)
Bill MacDonald (FBI agent morgue)
Jamie Shannon (young Bill Smith)
Timothy Webber (audio technician)
Chapelle Jaffe (Council Chamber Member, Stockholm)
Christopher Britton (Council Chamber Member, Buffalo)
Gerry Quigley (Council Chamber Member, Khartoum)
Leonard Chow (Council Chamber Member, Beijing)
Scott Thompson (controller)
John Kozak, James Mainprize, Bob Bainborough (investigators)
Daryl Shuttleworth (TV reporter at crash site)
Gerard Theoret (Time Scan operator)
Edward Roy (gantry controller)
John Stoneman (hijacker)
Debbie Kirby (stewardess)
Linda Goranson (hostage)
Syd Libman (passenger)
Patrick Young (reporter 1)
Paula Barrett (reporter 2)
Richard Fitzpatrick (reporter 3)
Reg Dreger (reporter 4)
Cordelia Strube (reporter 5)
Marvin Caron (reporter 6)
David Bolt (1st board member)
Maida Rogerson (2nd board member)
Mark Terene (waiter)
Jank Azman (evacuation worker)
Kevin Fullam (TUA worker) SUMMARY While working on the wreckage of a downed airliner, an air crash investigator uncovers a plot by scientists from a future polluted Earth to travel back to the late 1990s and snatch people from impending disasters. These abductees are then taken back to the future where they are to help repopulate a dying planet. CAPSULE REVIEW John Varley failed miserably to translate his impressive short story into a worthy script with this quite awful adaptation. The basic ideas remain intriguing, but the need to stretch the plot to feature length seems to have robbed it of all the things that made the story work in the first place. The casting of Kristofferson and Ladd certainly did little to help, the direction is so lethargic it comes close to stalling the film completely and having to sit through much of the footage twice just about kills it stone dead. One for time travel completists only. AVAILABILITY Germany
DVD Distributor: Splendid Entertainment (40 06448 75002 2); Artisan Entertainment (60491; includes - an alternate ending) USA
Theatrical Distributor: 20th Century Fox Film Corporation
Video Distributor: IVE
Laserdisc Distributor: Image Entertainment Inc CENSORSHIP HISTORY UK
Rating: PG USA
Rating: PG-13 AWARDS 1990
Genie Awards, Canada
Best Achievement in Cinematography (René Ohashi) - nominated
Best Achievement in Costume Design (Olga Dimitrov) - nominated
Best Achievement in Overall Sound (Marvin Berns, Paul Coombe, Douglas Ganton, Don White) - nominated
Best Achievement in Sound Editing (Terry Burke, Alan Hardiman, Jim Hopkins, Penny Hozy, Robin Leigh) - nominated
Best Adapted Screenplay (John Varley) - nominated TIMELINE
1989
August
25: USA - theatrical release
1999
January
29: Germany - DVD release (Splendid Entertainment (40 06448 75002 2))
April
20: Germany - DVD release (Artisan Entertainment (60491)) POSTER TAGS We've Been Expecting You. The People Aboard Flight 35 Are About To Land 1,000 Years From Where They Planned To. Beyond the boundaries of time... they are waiting for you! ALTERNATIVE TITLES På sporet af fremtiden - Danish title
Millennium - Die 4. Dimension - German title
Millenium - French title REFERENCES MAGAZINES Movieline vol.11 no.4 (January 2000) p.108 (USA)
review (Bad Movies We Love: Millenium Madness by Edward Margulies) KEYWORDS
short story into film; time travel; airliners; air
crashes; scientist; the future; time paradoxes; robots
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