Idaho Transfer
by Thomas Matthiesen, directed by Peter Fonda
A group of secretive scientists develop time travel near Idaho’s Craters of the Moon,
discovering a near-future apocalypse. Since anyone much over age 20 can’t survive
traveling, they’re in the process of sending a group of young people, including Isa and
her withdrawn sister Karen, beyond the apocalypse to rebuild civilization. Things go
wrong (not the least of which are the plot, the dialogue, the acting, the sound track,
and the requirement that the young Jane Fonda lookalikes must strip to travel through
time), but even so, the film has a certain unprepossessing appeal.
— Michael Main
You see, Dad and Lewis are trying to get it together, to secretly transfer a lot of young
people into the future, bypassing the eco-crisis or whatever it is. Start a new
civilization.
Idaho Transfer by Thomas Matthiesen, directed by
Peter Fonda (at movie theaters, USA, 15 June 1973).