Love letter to sci-fi nerdiness, centred on the original release of the sci-fi blockbuster, was almost 20 years in the making – and it’s worth the wait
f any film merits the term “development hell”, it’s this. Patrick Read Johnson shot 5-25-77 between 2004 and 2006, when star John Francis Daley was young enough to pass for its 17-year-old lead character; its special effects were only completed in the back half of the last decade. But this tortuous backstory entirely befits this autobiographical ode to cineaste passion and persistence, all hung on nerd D-day: 25 May 1977, the release of.
Johnson – who in the intervening years wrote 1996 fantasy pic Dragonheart and did effects work on Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure – wears his enthusiasm on his sleeve, sometimes to a fault. The early scenes, revolving around Pat and put-upon single mother Janet, are an irritating barrage of motormouthed cinephilia, while the whole film is an odd bricolage of styles: loose-limbed Linklater sitcom, Kubrick pastiche, Guy Maddin primitivism, lo-fi fantasia.
As per a pal’s amateur diagnosis, Pat is compensating for his own issues by fixating on the anointed 25 May date as a life-transforming event, and so endangering a budding relationship with Linda . Star Wars worship is a zombie trope on film, but 5-25-77 exceeds the likes of Troops and Kevin Smith in its self-excoriating questioning of the need to invest this much in screen fictions. “Here you are, at the intersection of fantasy and reality.
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