Idaho Transfer
During a time of waning global resources, a crew of young researchers travel into the future to escape an apocalypse before the shutdown of their time transfer project. They find that some type of disaster has de-populated the Idaho region and, by implication, the nation or perhaps the world. Facing an unknown, barren future of abandoned towns and deserted vehicles; void of radio signals or any signs of air or land traffic, they encounter an abandoned freight train filled with bagged bodies. Their further discoveries of humanity's future fate is somewhat less than rosy. They also learn their time travel was not without significant costs to their own health. After one of the group travels further into the future, she encounters a family in a futuristic automobile; implying humankind has recovered from the disaster (or have they?)
Idaho Transfer is a 1973 science fiction film directed by Peter Fonda. It stars Kelley Bohanon, Kevin Hearst, Dale Hopkins, and Keith Carradine.
It is the only film Fonda directed in which he did not appear.
Plot
Teenager Karen Braden (Kelley Bohanon) is a troubled mental hospital outpatient who is taken by her father George and sister Isa to a government facility near the Craters of the Moon lava fields in Idaho. The project there was commissioned to develop matter transference, but made a different discovery: time travel. They also discovered that a mysterious ecological catastrophe will soon wipe out civilization.
The time travel process has negative health effects, though. Adults “not much older than 20” are unable to survive for long, as their kidneys hemorrhage shortly after the experience. So the scientists decide to only send young people 56 years into the future so they can build a new civilization.
After the government takes over the project, the transfer machines are turned off, trapping a large number of project members in the future. Now trapped, they begin exploring the future world. The last survivor from the project is picked up by a family dressed in futuristic clothing. She is placed alive in the trunk of their car, ostensibly to be used as fuel. The small girl in the back seat asks what will happen when they run out of them (people from the past), “Will we have to use each other, then?”
Cast
Kelley Bohanon as Karen Braden
Kevin Hearst as Ronald
Caroline Hildebrand as Isa Braden
Keith Carradine as Arthur
Ted D’Arms as George Braden
Judy Motulsky as Judy (as Judy Motolsky)
Dale Hopkins as Leslie
Fred Seagraves as Dr. Lewis
Joe Newman as Cleve
Susan Kelly as Nurse Nora
Meridith Hull as Jennifer
Roy B. Ayers as Elgin (as Roy Ayers)
Kim Casper as Anne
Debbie Scott as Joanna
Devin Burke as Michael
Earl Crabb as Evans
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