IMDb plot summary: New York, 1980: airplanes have replaced cars, numbers have replaced names, pills have replaced food, government-arranged marriages have replaced love, and test tube babies have replaced ... well, you get the idea. Scientists revive a man struck by lightning in 1930.
Directed by David Butler. Starring El Brendel, Maureen O'Sullivan, and John Garrick.
Just Imagine is a 1930 sci-fi comedy set in the distant future of 1980. In this future, we all have numbers instead of names, the government chooses who you marry, and your food is delivered to you in pill form. A dead man from the 1930s is brought back to life in 1980, and he and his friends walk around seeing how different life is now. This was the first movie I watched to kick-off my 1930 project where I'm trying to watch 100 movies from that year and it was a really fun one to start with. It is, of course, fun to look back at 1980 as the far future and the guesses that they made about it, but it's also just a genuine enjoyable movie... especially when they unexpectedly end up on Mars and have to fight Martians. Our 1930 everyman is a lot of fun. It's overall a silly, unique little movie.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Just Imagine > The Harder They Fall
Just Imagine < Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)
Just Imagine > Timecop
Just Imagine < Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Just Imagine > The Circus
Just Imagine > Moonwalker
Just Imagine > Evita
Just Imagine > Cake
Just Imagine > The Descendants
Just Imagine > I Heart Huckabees
Just Imagine < Watchmen
Final spot: #1104 out of 3525, or 69%.
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