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The American Astronaut

Space is a lonely town

6.9(62)20011h 32m2

Samual Curtis's first mission in this bizarre science fiction musical comedy requires him to take a cat to a saloon on an asteroid. There, he meets his former dance partner (the Blueberry Pirate) and collects his payment: a device capable of producing a Real Live Girl.

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Status
Released
Budget
—
Box office
$38.2K
Language
English
  • musical
  • breast
  • space western
  • astronaut
  • genre bending
  • space adventure
  • musical comedy
  • independent film
  • planet venus

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Director

Cory McAbee

Produced in

United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereSundance Film Festival20 Jan 2001
    • PremiereMaryland Film Festival4 May 2001
    • Theatrical (limited)NR21 Sept 2001
  • United KingdomGB

    • PremiereLondon Sci-Fi and Fantasy Film Festival1 Feb 2002
  • AustraliaAU

    • PremierePerth International Film Festival25 Jun 2002
  • CanadaCA

    • PremiereToronto International Film Festival12 Sept 2001
    • PremiereVancouver International Film Festival6 Oct 2001
  • DenmarkDK

    • PremiereCosmic Zoom Festival10 Oct 2003
  • FranceFR

    • PremiereRencontres Internationales de Cinéma à Paris3 Nov 2001
  • GermanyDE

    • PremiereOldenburg International Film Festival7 Sept 2001
  • GreeceGR

    • PremiereAthens Film Festival16 Sept 2001
  • IcelandIS

    • PremiereReykjavik International Film Festival17 Sept 2009
  • IrelandIE

    • PremiereDublin13 Sept 2003
  • NorwayNO

    • PremiereOslo International Film Festival21 Nov 2001
  • SwedenSE

    • PremiereUmeå International Film Festival18 Sept 2003

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The American Astronaut was released on 21 September 2001.

Audience reviews

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    Walruse

    2/7/2018

    9/10

    The American Astronaut is a sci-fi musical set in a redneck retro-futuristic space age, had the American frontier continued off the planet. The scenery is of rustique planetary habitats and travel through interplanetary space in an equally rugged vessel. Thematically it is an exposition on families and the inter-family relational space, all of which might be considered unconventional. Visually it is absolutely stunni…

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