Habitat (movie)
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B-grade scifi film produced for the Direct To Video market and shown on the Sci Fi Channel The film's message one one of ecological warning, mixed with heavy scifi elements of genetic engineering gone awry, family angst and redemption.
SYNOPSIS
In a future where the Earth's Ozone layer is severely depleted the Symes family is on the run from the father's former employers and the government. Hank Symes a molecular biologist, has become so obsessed with saving the world that he has placed his entire familie's lives in danger. They stop in a desert community to hide out and continue work when a terrible accident occurs that transforms Hank into a fantastic etherial lifeform and begins changing the house into a huge botanical biosphere entity which has the ability to threaten all who enter. Their son Andreas however is experiencing things from a teenagers point of view and doesn't know how he will be able to attend the local school, let alone fit in with any of the local kids as they all see him as some weirdo that just wandered into town. No matter what Andreas feels, his father is still around him, changing things for him and others and eventually even Andreas will come to see that in this strange time he is living that miracles still can happen.
CAST
Balthazar Getty .... Andreas Symes
Tchéky Karyo .... Hank Symes
Alice Krige .... Clarissa Symes
Kenneth Welsh .... Coach Marlowe
Laura Harris .... Deborah Marlowe
Brad Austin .... Blaine
Christopher Heyerdahl .... Eric Thornton (as Chris Heyerdahl)
Kristen Holden-Ried .... Daryl (as Kris Holdenried)
Daniel Pilon .... Strickland
TRIVIA
- This is the only theatrical movie filmed in Sony's early analog High Definition format. Sony donated the equipment and technical support in an attempt to popularize the format. The High Definition video was then transferred to film for release.
