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White Dwarf

1995, Movie, R, 90 mins

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Set in the year 3040, WHITE DWARF is a peculiar mix of sci-fi and fantasy detailing the emotional growth of a doctor serving an internship on the remote planet of Rosta. The film's rich, detailed setting cannot compensate for the lack of a coherent plot. The planet Rosta, which circles a white dwarf star, does not rotate on its axis; thus one side of the world is always in the sun--the other, in night. A centuries-old civil war between the light and dark sides may soon end w... read more leave a comment
Year: 1995
Rated R

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Cast
Paul Winfield: Dr. Akada
CCH Pounder: Nurse Shabana
Neal McDonough: Dr. Driscoll Rampart
Ele Keats: Princess Ariel
Joey Andrews: Never
Tara Graham: XaXa

 

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Question: I remember watching a very short-lived show (it might even have been only a two-hour pilot) about a planet that had one half permanently in the dark and one have permanently in the light. Do you know the name of this show? Thanks.


Answer: You're thinking of Fox's White Dwarf, a two-hour pilot produced by Bruce Wagner (Wild Palms) and Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now Redux, etc.) which originally aired May 1995 and never made it to series.

In what The Los Angeles Times termed "a sort of Willow meets ER set in the time of Star Wars, Neal McDonough starred as a young doctor from Earth who traveled to the planet Rusta in the year 3040 to study the ways read more

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