The American Astronaut Page #2

Synopsis: Space travel has become a dirty way of life dominated by derelicts, grease monkeys, thieves, and hard-boiled interplanetary traders such as Samuel Curtis, an astronaut from Earth who deals in a rare goods, living or otherwise. His mission begins with the unlikely delivery of a cat to a small outer-belt asteroid saloon where he meets his former dance partner, and renowned interplanetary fruit thief, the Blueberry Pirate. As payment for his delivery of the cat, Curtis receives a homemade cloning device already in the process of creating a creature most rare in this space quadrant... a Real Live Girl. At the suggestion of the Blueberry Pirate, Curtis takes the Real Live Girl to Jupiter where women have long been a mystery. There, he proposes a trade with the owner of Jupiter: the Real Live Girl clone for the Boy Who Actually Saw A Woman's Breast. The Boy Who Actually Saw A Woman's Breast is regarded as royalty on the all-male mining planet of Jupiter because of his unique and exotic conta
Director(s): Cory McAbee
  2 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Metacritic:
51
NOT RATED
Year:
2001
91 min
135 Views


but the women of Venus won't part with his body|untii an adequate repiacement has been deiivered.

The perfect repiacement couid be found|on Jupiter.

Jupiter's a very weaithy mining pianet, where|infant maies are taken and soid to a man...

named Lee Viiensky.

They're raised as workers and grow up to be|strong men with no knowiedge of women.

Lee Viiensky owns Jupiter and years|before he had purchased a boy...

from Samuei Curtis known as...

The Boy who actuaiiy saw a|woman's breast.

Forthis brief experience the boy has|been treated as a treasure.

He's become the pianet's|figurehead.

He's used to boost the moraie of workers|by performing in great night raiiies...

where he quickiy and arrogantiy describes|what it is he had seen.

Overthe years, the boy had grown up to|be a strong and handsome young man...

and both the Biueberry Pirate and Samuei Curtis|know that the women of Venus wouid go nuts for him.

They aiso beiieve that Lee Viiensky|wouid part with the boy in trade for...

the reai iive giri.

He couid raise her, marry her, have sex|with her...

then describe the experience to his|workers in great detaii.

That wouid be an incredibie moraie|booster.

That wouid create a happier, more|productive work environment.

So i take the giri to Jupiter...

trade her forthe boy, bring the boy to|Venus...

trade him forJohnny R...

bring Johnny R. Back to earth and i|get rich.

That's it.

Where'd the giri come from?

Eddy cioned her from one of his|own ceiis.

That's one detaii best ieft unsaid.

Gentiemen, is it just me or do my baiis|itch?

So this guy waiks into a bar and he says|to the bartender...

"Can i use your phone?" The bartender says, "Sure".|So, he wipes his ass on it and the bart...

What?

Ah sh*t, i just toid you the punchiine.

I've been teiiing this joke so f***in'|iong, i knew i'd f*** it up.

Anyway. You want to hear something|reaiiy weird?

So there's this man and he iived his whoie iife|on Earth and his name was Mr. Stevenson.

When Mr. Stevenson was eight years|oid, he asked another iittie boy...

if he wouid iike a Hurts Donut. The other|boy said, "Yes."

So he hit him on the arm and he said,|"Hurts Donut?".

Five years iater Mr. Stevenson asked another|boy about his same age at that time...

if he wouid iike a Hurts Donut.

When the boy said, "Yes", Mr. Stevenson|stabbed him over and over again...

in his eye, in his cheek with a pencii...

saying, "Hurts Donut?"

Overthe years Mr. Stevenson did very|weii in schooi.

On graduation day he was sat next to|another young man, who...

iike Mr. Stevenson, had earned high marks.

When he asked the boy if he wouid iike|a Hurts Donut, the boy said...

"Not if you're going to stab me in the|eye with a pencii."

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Cory McAbee

Cory McAbee (born August 29, 1961, Santa Venetia, California, USA) is an American writer, director, singer and songwriter. more…

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