Future '38 (2017)

 'Future '38' is a low budget indie comedy, a science fiction romance that is presented as a supposedly lost film in an introduction hosted by Dr. Neil DeGrass Tyson of all people. Nick Westrate plays Essex, sent 80 years into the future by the War Department (with almost no explanation on how this was accomplished) to retrieve a dangerous isotope developed in the 30's, but that takes decades to achieve it's full explosive potential. The government hopes to use the isotope to deter Nazi aggression and prevent a second World War. When Essex arrives in the future he finds that he has succeeded and the world is peaceful, but there are a group of unreconstructed Germans who have learned how the war was prevented and hope to stop Essex in his mission. 

Essex enlists the aid of a hotel operator played by Betty Gilpin, who becomes his love interest and delivers her dialogue in Katheryn Hepburn diction. I found the movie plucky and charming, it's chief gags concern relaying the world of 2018 in a way that would be theoretically decipherable to viewers in 1938. It's like a book translated into a foreign language and then back into English, so the internet become 'the electromesh', plastic becomes 'Bendo', and the spork becomes the froon. There are many amusing gags here, such the '24 hour new cycle' being a newspaper delivery service on unicycle. Gilpin and Westrate have a nice chemistry and the whole thing is probably better then it should be. It even boasts a surprisingly soulful and down beat ending. At around 75 minutes probably worth seeing if your at all intrigued. ***