The Postman

Kevin Costner directed and stars in this adaptation of David Brin’s science fiction novel The Postman (1985), first published in 1982 issues of Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. Costner’s return to directing after his Oscar-winning Dances With Wolves(1990) is a futuristic epic depicting the aftermath of a destructive war. Some 16 years from the present day, America has been turned into a wasteland of separated communities minus a national government.