The Man from Earth is a 2007 science fiction drama film written by Jerome Bixby and directed by Richard Schenkman. The film follows the story of John Oldman, a man who claims to be a 14,000-year-old Cro-Magnon. As his colleagues
The Man from Earth is a 2007 American science fiction drama film directed by Richard Schenkman. It was written by Jerome Bixby, who conceived the screenplay in the early 1960s and completed it on his deathbed in April 1998. It stars David Lee Smith as John Oldman, a departing university professor, who puts forth the notion that he is more than 14,000 years old. The entire film is set in and around Oldman's house during his farewell party and consists almost entirely of dialogue. The plot advances through intellectual arguments between Oldman and his fellow faculty members.