Man of the Century movie storyline. Johnny Twennies, a newspaper columnist in present-day New York, is a jauntily cheerful, very friendly, totally honest and upstanding young man who happens to be completely oblivious to any technological or social changes in the past 70 years. He routinely uses telegrams, a manual typewriter, and a manual toaster, and to the pleasure and despair of his girlfriend conducts his personal life in correspondingly anachronistic style. One day he’s threatened by criminals who want to plant a false news story. But they’ve never met anyone like him before…
Man of the Century is a 1999 comedy film directed by Adam Abraham and written by Abraham and Gibson Frazier. The film stars Frazier, Cara Buono, Susan Egan, Dwight Ewell and Anthony Rapp. It is a farce about the attitudes, values, and slang displayed in the popular culture of the 1920s (and, to some extent, the early 1930s). Man of the Century was filmed in black and white. Its working title was “Johnny Twennies”.
Man of the Century (1999)
Directed by: Adam Abraham
Starring: Cara Buono, Brian Davies, Susan Egan, Dwight Ewell, Gibson Frazier, Frank Gorshin, David Margulies, Anthony Rapp, Marisa Ryan, Bobby Short
Screenplay by: Adam Abraham, Gibson Frazier
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Cinematography by: Matthew Jensen
Film Editing by: Frank Reynolds
Costume Design by: Claudia Hill
Art Direction by: Sanna Riley
Music by: Michael Weiner
Distributed by: Fine Line Features
Release Date: October 29, 1999
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