He convinces Pineview's leader, Sheriff Briscoe, to let him in by showing a letter addressed to elderly villager Irene March. With the postman's uniform and mail bag, he arrives in the settlement of Pineview claiming to be from the newly-restored U.S. When the nomad escapes, he takes refuge in a long-deceased postman's mail vehicle.
The Holnists, under their leader, General Bethlehem, are the de facto authority in the area, collecting tribute and recruits from local towns. At one town, the nomad is forced at gunpoint into the ranks of the Holnists, a neo-feudalist militia, and is branded on his shoulder with their symbol, a figure 8. In 2013, an unnamed nomad wanders the scattered communities of the Utah flatlands, trading performances of long-forgotten Shakespearean plays for food and water. It was nominated for three Saturn Awards but won all five of its Golden Raspberry Award nominations including Worst Picture. The film was a box-office bomb, grossing a total of $20.8 million worldwide against a budget of $80 million. Costner's decision to cast himself in the film was also criticized. Released on Christmas of 1997 by Warner Bros., The Postman was panned by critics, who criticized the performances, screenplay, direction, and long runtime. Like the book, the film follows the story of a nomadic drifter (Costner) who stumbles across the uniform of an old United States Postal Service mail carrier, and unwittingly inspires hope through an empty promise of a "Restored United States of America" and starts his path to become a national hero. It is set in a post-apocalyptic and neo-Western version of the disestablished United States in the then near-future year of 2013, sixteen-plus years after unspecified apocalyptic events, followed by plagues, left a huge impact on human civilization and erased most technology. The film also features Will Patton, Larenz Tate, Olivia Williams, James Russo, and Tom Petty. The screenplay was written by Eric Roth and Brian Helgeland, based on David Brin's 1985 book of the same name. The Postman is a 1997 American post-apocalyptic action adventure film produced and directed by Kevin Costner, who plays the lead role.
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