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The film Millennium came out in 1989, and starred Kris Kristofferson, Cheryl Ladd (formerly of the 1970s action show, Charlie's Angels), Robert Joy, Al Waxman, and Daniel J. Travanti as Dr. Arnold Mayer. Gladden Entertainment Corp. with Twentieth Century Fox, 108 minutes. Based on the novel by John Varley, who also wrote the screenplay.

The film follows the novel in a somewhat cursory manner, and is much more simplified as far as plot goes.

Plot summary

Bill Smith (Kristofferson) is an NTSB investigator hired to determine whether human error is the cause of a recent collision of two jumbo jets. At the same time, a college professor named Dr. Arnold Mayer has a professional curiosity about the crash, which borders on science fiction. While giving a lecture, he talks about time travel and the possibility of visitors from the future.

Time travellers are, in fact, visiting the present day and stealing passengers from doomed aircraft in order to repopulate a dying earth of the far future. While on one of the missions, an operative makes the mistake of leaving a weapon of the future on board a plane before it crashes. Mayer has retrieved this weapon several years earlier from the crash wreckage, and Smith finds a similar artifact in the more recent crash. They are about to compare notes.

Worried that these two individuals of the 20th Century might change history by their discoveries, the time travel team sends Louise Baltimore (Ladd) back to 1989 in order to distract Bill Smith and discourage him from pursuing his investigation further. Louise manages to gain Bill's trust, as well as seduce him into a one-night stand which she hopes will complete the distraction. However, because of yet more errors on the part of the time travel team, as well as paradoxical events, Bill becomes even more suspicious. He soon pays a visit to Dr. Mayer. At that point Louise materializes from the future and reveals her mission to both of them. In a mishap, Mayer kills himself with the stun weapon and Louise is forced to take Bill with her to the future. There it is decided that all of the people who have been collected across time must now be sent into an even more distant future to repopulate the earth before The Gate (the time machine) is destroyed, minutes later, by the tampering of history.

Bill and Louise step through and disappear into The Gate, which takes them to another time and another place, in order to save their lives and fulfill a destiny much like that of Adam and Eve.

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