About Yesterday's Tomorrows
- Released on August 09, 1999
Showtime's "In the 20th Century" is a millennium-related strand of feature-length documentaries in which famous directors take on major subjects of their choosing. In the third of the six films, "Yesterday's Tomorrows," filmmaker Barry Levinson delves into what we, as Americans, thought the future would be as we traveled through the 20th century. Houses and cars of the future, the promise of technology, and the other hopes and dreams of the early part of the century gave way to the fears and anxieties brought about by the atomic age and the Hollywood disaster films that followed. Soon we wondered if we could control technology, or if it would control us. This film is by turns light-hearted and thoughtful, and rare historical and archival film, produced by government and industry, alternates with on-screen interviews with people as diverse as consumer advocate Ralph Nader, cartoonist Matt Groening, futurist Alvin Toffler, comedienne Phyllis Diller, and actor Martin Mull.
Full Cast of Yesterday's Tomorrows
Richard Belzer plays Self
Richard Jay Belzer (August 4, 1944 - February 19, 2023) was an American stand-up comedian, author, and actor. He is ...
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Phyllis Diller plays Self
Phyllis Ada Diller (née Driver; July 17, 1917 – August 20, 2012) was an American stand-up comedian, actress, author, ...
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Matt Groening plays Self
Matthew Abram "Matt" Groening (born February 15, 1954) is an American cartoonist, screenwriter, and producer. He is t...
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Charlton Heston was an American actor of film, theatre and television. Heston is known for heroic roles in films such...
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Robert Klein (born February 8, 1942) is an American stand-up comedian, singer, and actor. He is known for his appeara...
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Frances Ann Lebowitz is an American author, public speaker, and occasional actor. Lebowitz is known for her sardonic ...
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Isaac Mizrahi (Born October 14, 1961) is an American TV presenter, fashion de...
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Martin Mull plays Self
Offbeat funnyman Martin Mull was born in Chicago, Illinois, the oldest of three children, and raised in Ohio. The blo...
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Bob Newhart plays Self
George Robert Newhart (born September 5, 1929), known professionally as Bob Newhart, is an American stand-up comedian...
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Alvin Toffler plays Self
Heidi Toffler plays Self
John Waters plays Self
Growing up in Baltimore in the 1950s, John Waters was not like other children; he was obsessed by violence and gore, ...
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