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Many believe that the change of the millennium signifies the end of the world and the dawn of a new age. Larry Webber is an average man who is willing to go to the ends of the earth to keep a mystery appointment. Sleepless nights, missing time and a growing interest in UFOs set him on course for a meeting at the Black Mailbox in the middle of the Nevada wasteland in a bid to discover a truth he never expected. He has to hurry, the end is nigh!
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital Stereo ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: As the year 2000 looms on the horizon, a young man seeks interstellar guidance in this bizarre independent comedy. Larry (Patrick Killian) is an emotionally blank and remarkably credulous pizza delivery boy who is suffering from a severe case of pre-millennium tension. Heading out to Area 51, the fabled alien landing zone deep in the Nevada desert, Larry finds a black mailbox and awaits the arrival of an alien armada that he's convinced will rescue him before the end of the world as he knows it. As Larry waits for the UFOs, he is visited by a number of fellow eccentrics, including a man who hunts for peyote while dressed as Santa Claus, a woman who is convinced that interstellar visitors want to sleep with her, and a teacher of new age philosophies who has an unusual mission for Larry. Lift was the debut feature from writer and director Anthony Theisen. ...Lift
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Got to be the worse film ever.No aliens.No flying saucers.No close encounter
Nothing.Just a nutter walking around meeting peaple.Don't waste your money.
Nothing.Just a nutter walking around meeting peaple.Don't waste your money.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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'Lift' is set at the turn of the millennium and follows the story of Larry, a pizza delivery operative, who is drawn into the world of PMT (pre-Millenial Tension) and ETH UFOlogy and becomes convinced that UFOs are going to arrive on New Years Day 2000 CE at a black post box in the town of Rachel, Nevada. His journey is undertaken variably by car, on foot, on motorbike and by hitching lifts.
The film has (perhaps deliberately) student-film-like, budget-free B-movie production values which goes for the sound quality as well as the visuals.
Its style is that of a folk tale - Larry the almost perpetually silent central character, is merely a link between a series of messages conveyed by the characters he meets one after the other in the desert. The desert folk he meets - the reasons for their being in the middle of a sandy nowhere in the blistering heat remaining largely inexplicable - each take the form of an eccentric representative of a subculture. Initially beginning with his goth fling who wants to make love to aliens, there follows a couple who are pursuing "voluntary extinction" of the human race, the gun-toting conspiracy theorist who trots out a breathless jumble of theories about the New World Order, the peyote dealer dressed up as Santa to name but a few.
The blank-faced protagonist passes them all by, their ideas he appears to consider unimportant or crazy, despite his own belief that he must be at the designated spot on time to meet with the flying saucers.
There is one character he meets in the story that he begins to relate to a little and opens up to; she's the only one he cares enough about to eventually attempt to convert, and when she doesn't believe him he rejects her as quickly as he has done his job and all the others he's met.
Its only at the end of the film, when he's standing at the post box on New Year's Eve waiting for dawn, where not even the people who created the theory have turned up, that he actually begins to think.
Yes it's a crummily-filmed B-movie, but yes I'm giving it 5 stars because of my own personal enjoyment of it, and the fact that in various circles I've actually met many of the same type of characters represented in the film. It's a film about selfishness really, how important one's beliefs are and how important belief is in in the context of relations with other people you share your life with.
Some further reading (non-fiction!) on some of the various theories spouted by the characters encountered (including the various cults that have really waited for the flying saucers to come) can be found in Kevin McClure's "Fortean Times" Book of the Millennium.
The film has (perhaps deliberately) student-film-like, budget-free B-movie production values which goes for the sound quality as well as the visuals.
Its style is that of a folk tale - Larry the almost perpetually silent central character, is merely a link between a series of messages conveyed by the characters he meets one after the other in the desert. The desert folk he meets - the reasons for their being in the middle of a sandy nowhere in the blistering heat remaining largely inexplicable - each take the form of an eccentric representative of a subculture. Initially beginning with his goth fling who wants to make love to aliens, there follows a couple who are pursuing "voluntary extinction" of the human race, the gun-toting conspiracy theorist who trots out a breathless jumble of theories about the New World Order, the peyote dealer dressed up as Santa to name but a few.
The blank-faced protagonist passes them all by, their ideas he appears to consider unimportant or crazy, despite his own belief that he must be at the designated spot on time to meet with the flying saucers.
There is one character he meets in the story that he begins to relate to a little and opens up to; she's the only one he cares enough about to eventually attempt to convert, and when she doesn't believe him he rejects her as quickly as he has done his job and all the others he's met.
Its only at the end of the film, when he's standing at the post box on New Year's Eve waiting for dawn, where not even the people who created the theory have turned up, that he actually begins to think.
Yes it's a crummily-filmed B-movie, but yes I'm giving it 5 stars because of my own personal enjoyment of it, and the fact that in various circles I've actually met many of the same type of characters represented in the film. It's a film about selfishness really, how important one's beliefs are and how important belief is in in the context of relations with other people you share your life with.
Some further reading (non-fiction!) on some of the various theories spouted by the characters encountered (including the various cults that have really waited for the flying saucers to come) can be found in Kevin McClure's "Fortean Times" Book of the Millennium.
17 of 24 people found the following review helpful
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This can only be described as a very bad version of a cult movie and although I am an abid Sci-Fi person I would NOT recommend anyone buying, renting, viewing this movie.
You are just waisting you time
You are just waisting you time
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