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The American Astronaut

"Space is a lonely town"

Samual Curtis's first mission in this bizarre science fiction musical comedy requires him to take a cat to a saloon on an asteroid. There, he meets his former dance partner (the Blueberry Pirate) and collects his payment: a device capable of producing a Real Live Girl. Including music by alternative rock group The Billy Nayer Show, this film began life as a live show with a loyal following.

Top Cast

  • Joshua Taylor

    Joshua Taylor

    Blueberry Pirate

  • Greg Russell Cook

    Greg Russell Cook

    The Boy Who Actually Saw a Woman's Breast

  • Rocco Sisto

    Rocco Sisto

    Professor Hess

  • Cory McAbee

    Cory McAbee

    The Silverminer

  • James Ransone

    James Ransone

    Bodysuit

  • Annie Golden

    Annie Golden

    Cloris

  • Tom Aldredge

    Tom Aldredge

    Old Man

  • Bill Buell

    Bill Buell

    Eddie

  • Peter McRobbie

    Peter McRobbie

    Lee Vilensky

Overview

Samual Curtis's first mission in this bizarre science fiction musical comedy requires him to take a cat to a saloon on an asteroid. There, he meets his former dance partner (the Blueberry Pirate) and collects his payment: a device capable of producing a Real Live Girl. Including music by alternative rock group The Billy Nayer Show, this film began life as a live show with a loyal following.

Rating

6.7 / 10
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  • Walruse
    Walruse
    9 Feb 7, 2018

    The American Astronaut is a sci-fi musical set in a redneck retro-futuristic space age, had the American frontier continued off the planet. The scenery is of rustique planetary habitats and travel through interplanetary space in an equally rugged vessel. Thematically it is an exposition on families and the inter-family relational space, all of which might be considered unconventional. Visually it is absolutely stunning in beautiful black and white with high contrast that accentuate the grittiness. The soundtrack is excellent and the musical numbers work well too. It is enthralling, it is dramatic, it is funny and it is now on among my favorite films. tl;dr 1975 in Warsaw; Young Homer writes a script for his step-brother David Lynch while listening to banned rockabilly albums. There is a worn poster of Gagarin on the wall and a postcard from France from his step-dad, the lorry driver that defected and abandoned them. His mom is singing in the kitchen.

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