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The Man from Earth
A dinner party, one room, and a man who says he's 14,000 years old.
The last script of a Star Trek writer
A college professor is packing up to leave town, and his colleagues drop by for a farewell drink. Then he tells them he's been alive for 14,000 years. The Man from Earth never leaves that cabin. There are no effects and no spaceships, just a group of academics trying to poke holes in his story while it gets harder and harder to dismiss. It was the final script by Jerome Bixby, who wrote several classic Star Trek episodes, and he finished it on his deathbed.
The film pirates saved
It was made for around $200,000 and went straight to DVD, and it might have vanished completely if it hadn't spread on file-sharing sites. The producer ended up publicly thanking the pirates for finding it an audience. You'll spend the whole night arguing about it afterwards, which is the best compliment you can give a film made of nothing but conversation.
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