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DecentGoodWatch scoreSummary
A “sci-fi povera” film shot on Super 8, Men in Orbit features musician Lurie and Eric Mitchell as chain-smoking astronauts in a decrepit New York living room that has been transformed into a spacecraft.
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Audiences 50GoodWatch 58
IMDb5.0
Running time
45 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 sci-fi movies, −54 min on the typical 99
typical 9945Half of all sci-fi movies run 90–112 min.
Released
1979
April 10, 1979
47 years ago
Genres
Science FictionDramaLanguage
English
Original language
Directing · 1
- John Lurie Director, Writer
Other crew · 1
- Jamie Nares Cinematography
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