| | Luke, sorry. I tried again from Amazon, checked the Properties URL by dropping it into Notepad so I could compare it directly and then did the same via IMDB. Both failed. (See below.)
Sam, see above. You can find it on Amazon in "very good" for $20 or "like new" for $40. Prices go up from there. I have a bootleg copy. (Again: my apologies to the protectors of intellectual property.) The fellow objectivist who gave this to me said that he has had "a dickens of a time finding it for sale anywhere." Obviously, he forgot to integrate the unmeasured concept "Amazon" into the wider abstraction of "places to buy this movie." He said, "I hate to think in terms of conspiracy theories, but when you watch this, you'll see what I mean."
The movie has its strengths and weaknesses.
"Why is everything like the 1950s?" Harrison asks.
"Because that was the last time that everyone was happy," replies Phillipa.
(Actually, it was because the designer found that a lot easier to do than to create the world of 2053 in toto, though I must say, they found some stunningly ugly concrete apartment complexes. I could not decide if they filmed it in a water treatment plant or East Germany or maybe an Eastern German water treatment plant....)
Also, the movie is formulaic. I mean, the discovery is all on the part of Harrison himself.
As for the conspiracy angle... well... it is like The Matrix, in a way. We all think we are running around free and perhaps we mostly are, but you can only choose from among your choices and if those are pre-determined, then the rest is irrelevant.
The strongest points of the movie are that no society can survive even statically without geniuses to hold it up and that great evil is only the reflex of great good. People have capacities for both and all that can be controlled -- if it can -- is the capacity, not the good and evil.
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