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| The Quiet Earth [1984] | ![The Quiet Earth [1984]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51D027EGYAL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Geoff Murphy
Actors: Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge, Pete Smith, Anzac Wallace, Norman Fletcher
Studio: Pegasus Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 5072
Format: Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Running Time: 87 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5050232705582
ASIN: B0000BXC0X
Theatrical Release Date: October 18, 1985
Release Date: August 15, 2003
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 Dull November 24, 2008
Spotted this and foolishly believed the reviews. Its an hour and a half I'll never get back. So full of "you would not do that!" screaming at the tv moments that I very nearly gave up before the end. Belief me, I wish I had - the finale (overstatement)is utter dross. The lead character - we're told to believe is a boffin who's part of a worldwide project that the yanks manipulate and botch, this project has the vague purpose of tinkering with the ionosphere for no apparent reason. After the device shifts the dimension of every human save these 3 misfits to some place else; This supposed genius then mooches about town in his underwear as he has a breakdown brought about by being all alone. He then holds a strange party with cardboard cutouts in his garden whilst dressed in womens clothing and the film goes downhill from there - including a predictably native male as the baddy (no stereotypes there then) I could go on describing this apalling film but I can't spare the keystrokes.
More reviews to follow - this is fun..
 A Well Made Cult Movie July 13, 2008
This is a great little movie that deserves a place in anyone's sci-fi collection. It has its highs and lows but finishes leaving the viewer/s to debate what the end was about. I love the reason given for having survived the 'event' very original. Good casting, three ordinary people, reasonably realistic, after all what would you do in their situation? I'll be looking out for other Pillsbury-Reynolds / Murphy productions.
 The music; oh my... June 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is absolutely cheating; I won't mention the movie much, the usual drooling raving comments I would put in would be scarecely better than the excellent comments already here. But I wanted to mention the music alone.
The theme music grabbed me so hard, I never quite got over it. This is so good that you are immediately expecting an epic before anything has even happened - and if you want to know, this incredible and moving tone poem is by a man called JOHN CHARLES.
He's a New Zealand composer, and he even has a website on sounz.org.nz, and you can see the music in score form, and wonder how anything in print can translate to something to tug so hard at the heartstrings of the soul.
The film? Very, very clever. But it explains very little in the end; something has gone fearfully wrong with the whole world, and Bruno Walters does his best with the intolerable consequences of something that we learn that in fact, he may have actually instigated in some way.
For a film that has almost no dialogue for the first part (well, strictly speaking, none at all), the thing is astonishingly dramatic; Gripping? I should say so..
And the ending explains nothing, obliterates everything, and introduces even more bewilderment. From what I have heard, it's one of the most highly rated ending of any film ever made in this category, and you have to be a bit brave to watch this, in a strange sense, because there really are no answers whatsoever, but hanging there does give you the most marvellous sense of strange and wondeful desolation. I seriously know nothing even remotely close to it.
Hell is other people March 2, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is an unusually low-key film covering the possibility of the disappearance of most human life on Earth (or New Zealand) and the reaction of the main character to that. Rather like THE OMEGA MAN (but without the Infected)much of the film's early impact relates to dealing with an empty world. When other people show up there is a layer of love triangle laid on the plot which nicely obscures what finally happens (though it feels pretty tedious at the time). The film does have some very clever explanations for the inconsistencies that one notices (nicely pulling you in, then snapping the trap). But the denouement makes the whole film worthwhile. It recasts the entire film.
But that love triangle really is tedious.
 NZ oddity June 11, 2007
4 out of 10 found this review helpful
No need to outline the plot that's done adequately by others: for me, of the actors only Zac, the scientist, was reasonable; the female, an unnervingly androgynous person had the most dreadful lines; the Maori was both a cartoon character and wooden actor; the relationships were never believable.
The plot and development barely maintains the film which overall is slow. The initial ending is cliche but then there is the final ending which while intriguing to SF fans is quite senseless, really inviting the viewer to make sense of it anyway they wish, if at all.
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