In The Tomorrow Man, John Lithgow plays Ed, is living in the future who lives alone. He spends his days stocking up for the coming end of civilization and posting online to his like-minded followers. These two meet Will be in the middle and, through a love connection, start to live together in the present situation?
The movie begins with a deep dive into John Ed, a retired computer engineer with way too much time on his hands. The box is his constant, and virtually only, companion.
Finally, something in the present an attractive and blood woman distracts him from his moody fixation. Ronnie, with her exciting wavy white hair and self-possession, is clearly a sensation at any age. She appears to be one of those jolly yet defended ladies who project of kindness.
Yet, as the Tomorrow man stream online movie explains, following Ronnie to her work as a sales clerk at a gift shop, it becomes increasingly clear that she’s hiding in plain sight. The benign smile she shows to the world is a ruse: She’s built a wall around the pain and shame she hides in a small house where she lives alone.
Their romance expands slowly. Ronnie initially suspects this stranger. Jones Ed reclaims by initiating contact, challenging himself to be susceptible to another person again, with awkward attempts at charm. From their meet-cute at the grocery through their first date and halting intimacy to a disastrous Thanks giving dinner at his son’s house and their ultimate reconciliation, it’s a wonderful and moving love story.
Writer-director Jones roots the romance in ordinary reality, although he heightens the mood with a sci-fi sense of dread that Ed may, in fact, be right. And for a music video director Jones shows enormous both are accomplished visual restraint.
A weaker element is the secondary plot involving the antagonism between Ed and his son, Brian. The Thanks giving set piece where Ed takes Ronnie to meet his family is overly familiar.
And, yet, the acting of the leads soars. Lithgow and Danner demonstrate that their craft ripens with maturity. Both are capable of comedy and tragedy, sometimes within the same scene or a single line. Watch the pair dive deep into their roles, swimming toward each other against the current of time, makes The Tomorrow Man stream online a movie (2019) worth seeing today.
