Directed by Mike Judge Screenplay by Etan Cohen and Mike Judge Release Date: September 1, 2006 Country: United States Language: English Budget: $2.4 million Box Office: $495,30311 Genre: Adventure, Comedy, SciFi, and Thriller2 Starring Luke Wilson as Joe Bauers / Not Sure Maya Rudolph as Rita Dax Shepard as Frito Pendejo Terry Crews as Dwayne
Now I don’t pretend to tell you how to find happiness and love, when every day is just a struggle to survive. But I do insist that you do survive. Because the days and the years ahead are worth living for.” — Harlan Ellison, D. C. Fontana, and Gene L. Coon, “The City on the Edge
“Your utopia is my dystopia.” —Gordon Jack
A pet peeve of mine is the idea that the only acceptable science fiction novel is the utopian story. Utopia, in this instance, refers to a type of utopia—antiutopian or, as it is more likely to be called, a dystopia. Science fiction depicting a better future society is somehow childish and unrealistic to readers who