The Last Child
In a badly-overpopulated future, where each couple is only allowed one child and where people over 65 are forbidden medical care under a very draconian set of laws, a young couple, pregnant with their second child (the first died shortly after birth) enlist the help of an elderly former US Senator to help them escape to Canada.
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- Cast：
- Michael Cole , Janet Margolin , Harry Guardino , Van Heflin , Ed Asner , Kent Smith , Philip Bourneuf
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Wonderful Movie
Absolutely Brilliant!
if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.
I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.
Controlling population growth may not be such a bad idea since the fauna of this planet are suffering due to man's selfishness. Human overpopulation results in cutting down of trees for open space and farmland. This then results in greenhouse gases which today we sadly see the effects. Controlling population growth is not a fascist thing. Sure China does it. Yes I know that Chinese are communists but they too can be labeled fascists. I have not seen the movie. But we should make a science 'fiction' movie like this one. Perhaps another remake of this movie should be in the works. With a big starred cast, we will be more inclined to be struck by the message of the film and maybe change our habits.
This movie was one of the most frightening I've ever seen because it is not only plausible, but may actually come to pass. I only wish it could be shown again and again on national television to remind us all of what can happen if the government ever takes over the health care system. When we undertake to surrender that much control of our lives to politicians and bureaucrats, the results will be catastrophic. Even today (2005) more and more control is shoved into our lives under the pretext of "security," and we are constantly treated to genuine and heartfelt reasons why we should surrender ever more control to the "authorities" who only wish us well. It is horrific to contemplate!
Before Roe v. Wade, and the pro-abortion cult became the state's approved PC religion, the ABC Movie-of-the-Week folks turned out this surprisingly prophetic film. Set in a time when the American democracy had devolved into fascism, and personal freedom was little more than a cliche, this was intended to be a look into a bizarre futuristic world, something like "Brave New World". Nearly thirty years later, that future seems right around the corner.
The Last Child is an excellent movie which was classified as science Fiction and shows how irrational demand for the control of population can get out of hand and how one couple was willing and able to defy an unjust law so that the law could be changed