Indie Memphis 2009

In the retro-engineered future of the 2001 feature debut from Cory McAbee (STINGRAY SAM), our solar system is a lonesome place of gritty drifters and shifty characters in pursuit of a quick buck, a better life, or the occasional mass disintegration. Our hero is Samuel Curtis (Cory McAbee), an interplanetary trader piloting his space-rig on a Homeric journey from Jupiter to Venus and points between. He is pursued by the enigmatic Professor Hess (Rocco Sisto), a dapper, childish killer from his past, with an itchy trigger finger and a compulsion to murder anyone he has no reason to kill. Along the way, they encounter a pirate who steals only fruit, an entire planet of sexually inexperienced men, and a floating barn full of super-intelligent miners from Nevada.

Designed to resemble a 1950s sci-fi universe gone to seed and populated with weirdos worthy of David Lynch, the most surprising part of the THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT may be that it is also a rockin’ musical, with an original soundtrack by the The Billy Nayer Show.

Cory McAbee is scheduled to attend.

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