NOTHING LASTS FOREVER-1984-Strange arty
old movie feel (in black & white) fantasy that takes place in an
alternate NYC (controlled by The Port Authority!) of the future. A
young man named Adam (Zach Galligan; in GREMLINS the same year) wants to be an “artist”. He
gets a job watching cars at The Holland Tunnel where Dan Aykroyd plays his boss and lives for a while with his aunt and uncle (Mort
Sahl). The film turns color when Adam visits an underground land run
by bums and watched over by Father Knickerbocker (Sam Jaffe in his
second to last movie). Later he accidentally takes a bus to the moon.
Bill Murray plays the ship's captain. In the bus lounge Eddie Fisher
performs “O My Papa”! The government sends old people (including
King Donovan, his real life wife Imogene Coca and Larry “Bud”
Melman) there to shop. Eventually Adam becomes a great pianist and
wins the love of a moon maiden named Eloy (Lauren Tom).
This strange
could be a cult film also uses stock footage and silent films and
features a cameo by Lawrence Tierney at the end. Paul Frees is the
narrator. It was written and directed by Tom Schiller a former
writer on Saturday Night Live.
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