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Overview

User Rating:
3.7/10   5,443 votes
Director:
Nathan Frankowski
Writers (WGA):
Kevin Miller (written by) and
Ben Stein (written by)
Release Date:
18 April 2008 (USA) more
Genre:
Documentary more
Tagline:
Big science has expelled smart new ideas from the classroom...What they forgot is that every generation has its Rebel!
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User Comments:
Dramatic fiction more

Cast

  (in credits order)

Ben Stein ... Himself - Host
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Peter Atkins ... Himself
Hector Avalos ... Himself
Doug Axe ... Himself
David Berlinski ... Himself
Walter Bradley ... Himself
Bruce Chapman ... Himself
Anderson Cooper ... Himself (archive footage)
Caroline Crocker ... Herself
Richard Dawkins ... Himself
William Dembski ... Himself (as William Albert Dembski)
Daniel C. Dennett ... Himself (as Daniel Dennett)
Michael Egnor ... Himself
Steve Fuller ... Himself
Uta George ... Herself
Marciej Giertych ... Himself
Guillermo Gonzalez ... Himself
John Hauptman ... Himself
Adolf Hitler ... Himself (archive footage)
Benjamin Kelley ... Himself (as Ben Kelley)
John Lennox ... Himself
Robert J. Marks II ... Himself
Alister McGrath ... Himself
Stephen C. Meyer ... Himself
Paul Zachary Myers ... Himself (as P. Z. Myers)
Paul Nelson ... Himself
John Polkinghorne ... Himself
William Provine ... Himself (as Will Provine)
Michael Ruse ... Himself
Margaret Sanger ... Herself (archive footage)
Gerald Schroeder ... Himself
Jeffrey Schwartz ... Himself
Eugenie C. Scott ... Herself (as Eugenie Scott)
Michael Shermer ... Himself
Mark Souder ... Himself
Richard Sternberg ... Himself
Deano Sutter ... Himself - Introductory Speaker
Witold 'Vic' Walczak ... Himself (archive footage)
Daniel Walsch ... Himself
Richard Weikart ... Himself
Jonathan Wells ... Himself
Pamela Winnick ... Herself
Larry Witham ... Himself
Nikita Khrushchev ... Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dan Quayle ... Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Ronald Reagan ... Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Pat Robertson ... Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Joseph Stalin ... Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Directed by
Nathan Frankowski 
 
Writing credits
(WGA)
Kevin Miller (written by) and
Ben Stein (written by)

Produced by
Logan Craft .... co-executive producer
Walt Ruloff .... co-executive producer
John Sullivan .... producer
 
Original Music by
Andy Hunter (musical score composed by)
 
Film Editing by
Simon Tondeur 
 
Casting by
Joy Tenenberg 
 
Production Management
Patrick Tittmar .... post-production supervisor
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Gillian Rowe .... first assistant director (as Gillian Fritzsche)
 
Art Department
Tom Whaley .... storyboard artist
 
Sound Department
Jeff Davis .... sound effects editor
Ewan Deane .... sound re-recording mixer
Peter Eliuk .... sound mix technician
Jeremy Duayne Elzinga .... sound engineer
Amy Giammarco .... post audio manager
Tanya Hnuta .... dialogue editor
Robert Hunter .... sound re-recording mixer
Johnny Ludgate .... sound effects editor
Luke Mathers .... foley editor
Maureen Murphy .... foley artist
Gordon Sproule .... foley mixer
Elaine Stef .... assistant foley artist
 
Visual Effects by
Andrea Chlebak .... digital intermediate colorist
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Ben Huddleston .... camera operator: "a" camera
Ben Huddleston .... director of photography: second unit
Maximilian Zenk .... assistant camera: Germany
 
Animation Department
Tom Whaley .... animator
 
Other crew
J.P. Chastain .... production assistant
Lydia Fleming .... production assistant coordinator
Maximilian Zenk .... production coordinator: Germany
Mark Joseph .... marketing (uncredited)
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Crossroads (USA) (fake working title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG for thematic material, some disturbing images and brief smoking.
Runtime:
USA:90 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor) | Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
USA:PG
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Michael Shermer has described the rather odd circumstances of his interview for the movie "Crossroads" (Expelled's previous title) online and in Scientific American magazine. He was asked for his thoughts about firing people for working in intelligent design "a dozen times", but when he asked them for example scenarios and whether they had any other questions about the field, neither Stein nor Mathis was forthcoming. During a discussion about Darwin's links to economist Adam Smith, Stein had to leave and sit in the car outside for "twenty minutes", during which time Shermer joked with Mathis about what he could be doing in there. When he returned, some hand-held footage was shot, and Stein returned to the subject of firing people once more. Shermer describes the experience as "surreal". more
Quotes:
Himself - Host: But will eradicating religion really lead to a modern utopia? Let me try to imagine that and let's let history be our guide. more
Movie Connections:
Features "The Abrams Report" (2001) more

FAQ

Is "Intelligent Design" the same as "Creationism"?
What is evolution?
Did Darwin advocate eugenics?
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99 out of 195 people found the following comment useful:-
Dramatic fiction, 26 April 2008
1/10
Author: grifr-1 from Piteå, Sweden

This movie is interesting in that it's done very dramatically and is able to raise strong emotions. Good merits end there.

Bad merits of this piece of fiction comes from posing as a document. This "intelligent design" is not taught simply because it's not science in any sense of the word, and the makers seem to know it well. They had to come up with desperate conspiracies of some big science (first time I've heard such a term) and accusations of destroying freedom of speech in order to make it effective to the regular religious American viewer. If their "studies" don't get through scientific peer-reviewing and are not published in Nature, it's not because "big science" suppresses "freedom of speech", it's because their "studies" spell out FAIL! in huge orange letters that are self-illuminating All they ever do in the movie is make the theory of evolution look like root of all the evils ever done. It's pure fiction, dressed in a fancy whore-costume and sold as a documentary.

I don't recommend this movie to anyone, but if you absolutely must see it, then keep in mind that it's pure fiction with no roots in reality what so ever.

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