Radio Free Albemuth (2010) on Netflix
Berkeley record store clerk Nick Brady has strange visions he credits to an entity called VALIS. The visions send him to Los Angeles, in an America ruled by President Fremont.
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Plot summary
In an alternate America circa 1985, President Fremont holds authoritarian power. Nick Brady works in a Berkeley record store and lives modestly with Rachel, his wife, and their baby son. He has been having strange visions and dreams, and he tells Rachel and his best friend Phil, a science-fiction writer, about them. Nick calls the source of the visions VALIS. One recurring symbol, an ichthys, appears to him. When an orbiting satellite fires a pink laser into his head, Nick rushes his son to the hospital, certain the boy has an inguinal hernia; a doubting doctor examines the child and finds that Nick is right. Following the visions, Nick moves to Los Angeles and finds work at a record label. Two FAP members, from a group called Friends of the American People, come to Phil asking what Nick sees.
Cast
- Bruce Henselas Newscaster #2
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Radio Free Albemuth (2010)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Simon said the financiers preferred the title VALIS, and that because Radio Free Albemuth is essentially the first draft of VALIS the production ended up with the rights to both from the estate of Philip K. Dick.
