The Age of Stupid is a 90-minute film about climate change, set in the future, which will have its world premiere in London on March 15th 2009 and then be released in UK cinemas on March 20th 2009, followed by other countries.

Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite (In The Name of the Father, Brassed Off) stars as a man living alone in the devasted world of 2055, looking back at “archive” footage from 2007 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?
  • Stuart Scott 9 months ago
    Fantastic movie. This trailer is a definite improvement over the previous one. Hope everyone sees the movie, and hope it comes out as early as possible in 2009.
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  • Hugh Janus 9 months ago
    Oh my Gawd. They should call this "The age of stupid films". This trailer sets the scene to a one-sided rant about the former fashionable issue of Man-made global warming. Hey that's so last year guys. Move on it's been disproved! Surely there are real issues to be concerned about in the World. I mean "An inconvenient truth" was exposed as completely contrary to the facts relating to this subject and the producers expect us to swallow even more of this stuff?
    Sixth-form agitprop film pure and simple. "Why can't the leaders of the World hold hands and make friends", that's the target audience of this film.
    Don't shell out your hard earned for this one, don't you know there is a global depression on?
  • Leo Murray 9 months ago
    Huge anus? I see what you did there. Hilarious. I checked your profile and as far as I can tell you've signed up for a Vimeo account purely so you could leave this inane comment! Please see my own film on vimeo if you want get better educated about climate change than this numpty. wakeupfreakout.org/
  • Hugh Janus 9 months ago
    A numpty eh? Hmmn thanks for that considered comment. Well I have seen your,film and I must say you are wrong on many of the supposed facts you put forward but this is a film site and not a scientific one. You, like so many, have been suckered into believing this stuff. If YOU want to get better educated about climate change then I suggest you stop reading the Guardian and forget An inconvenient truth and find out why so many real scientists feel that the whole world has been conned into the biggest scam of all time. A litte knowledge is a dangerous thing my friend, a very dangerous thing. Personally I never use the media of film to find out facts. They are bias towards the agenda of the film maker. Witness Braveheart, first among equals when it comes to getting facts wrong.
    Personally I'd get more our of the Die hard series than any pseudo scientific codswallop such as The day after tomorrow.
    Oh while We're at it you accuse me of only signing up on this site so that I could leave an inane comment. I thought this was a free country We lived in. Are you suggesting that what I did was in some way wrong? Is it your position to make a judgement on my motive? lI notice that the only film you appeared to have made is concerned with global warming. Pot, kettle, black?
  • Leo Murray 9 months ago
    No, indeed you are free to write as many inane comments as you like under your side-splitting pseudonym (why not your real name I wonder?).

    I just thought you may have missed the fact that the script of my film is available online, fully referenced with dozens of academic citations. I read a great deal of scientific literature in researching it, and would entreat anyone who believes the perspective put forward in my film is not scientifically credible to take up this complaint with my source material; very large volumes of peer-reviewed climate science. You can find it here: wakeupfreakout.org/wakeup.html , if you are genuinely as interested in scientific credibility as you profess (your online alias suggests perhaps you aren't).

    You're perfectly right about the Day After Tomorrow though of course. That's why you won't find any scientific references in the credits to that pseudo-scientific codswallop.

    Far from being suckered into believing this stuff, I have investigated its veracity with a rigour and thoroughness that clearly eludes you. The vast majority of the world's scientists believe we should be extremely concerned about the prospects for human welfare and prosperity in light of the threat of runaway warming. That's the situation in the real world, regardless of the poorly informed and ideologically motivated opinions of people such as yourself.
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  • Shelly Thomas 9 months ago
    Fantastic trailer. I'm in the US and I can't wait for this to get over here finally. As you can see by a couple of the comments here, people sorely need some education on climate change. Now that our horrible former president is rotting on his ranch in Texas, maybe we can FINALLY get a move on with the subject in this film and hope it's not too late.
    Pity the ignorant... what else can you do.
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  • Shelly Thomas 9 months ago
    By the way if more comments like Huge Anus's appear here, know that it's a fact that Exxon and BP and Shell, et. al, have paid for massive multi-million dollar disinformation campaigns to spread lies about climate change. They actually hire people to write lies about climate change on websites. I have no doubt that there will be more efforts like that surrounding this movie. Huge, my only question to you would be what amount did you sell out for? One day your kind will be considered guilty of war crimes. In the meantime, please spend the loot you got paid to lie from Big Oil because our economy could use the jolt.
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  • Hugh Janus 9 months ago
    I've thought about this and this post is bringing out the worst in me. I apologise if I was rude to anyone. This is actually a very good site. Keep up the good work.
  • Angus MacDonald 4 months ago
    Dear Mr Anus,
    having slung so much metaphorical mud, I'm curious to know what are your own proposals for waking up dormant public opinion, assaugeing frenzied consumerism and turning the world economy around in a sustainable manner ?
    (Or are you suggesting perhaps that there is no global warming problem, it's all just a giant PR stunt?)

    p.s. Have you by any chance noticed hair growing on the palms of your hands ?
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  • Jason Brooks 9 months ago
    Looks very interesting to me - I'd like to see the full-length, to see if it can offer any suggestions for positive directions that can be taken by the layman. That's what we need (although generally waking people up to emerging ideas/facts is a great thing too).

    Cheers,

    jason
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  • Dave Hampton 9 months ago
    Pure genius. Probably the most important film ever to be made. (Dave's mixing his drink ads?) True though.
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  • Green loafer 9 months ago
    Have seen the full film and it's fantastic. This trailer doesn't/can't do it justice. Make sure you see it.
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  • Elton Hewett 8 months ago
    I'm quite happy to admit I set up an account just to say this looks set to be a good film to watch.
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  • Splashroom 8 months ago
    Can't wait to see this, any idea how long until it hits NZ?
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