Millennium
Short description
Millennium is a 1989 science fiction thriller about an investigation into a midair collision between two passenger jets near Minneapolis. Bill Smith, who leads the inquiry, finds evidence that the crash was not simply an accident, including a weapon of unknown origin recovered from the wreckage. His search leads him to Louise Baltimore and to a group of time travellers from a future Earth whose environment has been ruined and whose people can no longer reproduce. They take passengers from doomed aircraft moments before impact, replacing them with artificial bodies, in order to preserve a healthy human stock. The film is based on a novel by John Varley, who also wrote the screenplay.
Michael Anderson directed, in a career that includes The Dam Busters (1955), Around the World in 80 Days (1956), 1984 (1956), Logan's Run (1976) and Orca (1977), with this film being the tenth of his directed features listed here. Kris Kristofferson plays Bill Smith, Cheryl Ladd plays Louise Baltimore, and Daniel J. Travanti, Robert Joy, Al Waxman and Lloyd Bochner appear in supporting roles. The production involved 53 credited cast and 101 credited crew members, and it was made by 20th Century Fox and Gladden Entertainment.
Released on August 25, 1989, the film runs 105 minutes and took about 6 million USD worldwide. On IMDb it holds 5.7/10 from around 7,500 votes, while on TMDB it has 5.4/10 from 154 votes. A critics' rating of 3.8/10 from 10 reviews places it below both audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- In the final scene, the audience hears Sherman say, "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. It is the end of the beginning." This is a paraphrased statement by Winston Churchill (1874-1965) from a speech on November 10, 1942, when he used almost the same words to describe a turning point in World War II.
- To create the effect of a temporal transition through the portal, operator Rene Ohashi created a glow by rotating hoops covered with a film based on polyethylene terephthalate polyester fiber (trade name "Mylar," a substance created by DuPont in the early 1950s).
- The film has a second ending, which was only shown to audiences in foreign markets. In it, William and Louisa are transported to Eden in the distant future and find themselves in each other's arms.
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