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Idaho Transfer is a 1973 science fiction film directed by Peter Fonda. It stars Kelly Bohanon , Kevin Hearst , Dale Hopkins and Keith Carradine. Young (under 20) hippies at a government project in Idaho use a time machine that takes them 50 years into the future. Somehow they have learnt of an impending catastrophe (exactly what is not specified) that will wipe out civilization. So the young hippies jump into the future to renew civilization. No adults can go, because you can't trust anyone over 30 (actually the movie claims their kidneys will hemorrhage). The evil government watns to shut down the project (the idealistic scientists are keeping the nature of the project a secret, oddly, the government doesn't want to keep giving them free money). After the time machines are disabled, the hippies hike to Oregon, and casually mention that they are all sterile, so there was no point in their project. The girl protagonist hikes back to the time machine, is attacked by a crazy girl, finds a time machine that is working again, pops back, grabs a scrwdriver, returns to the future and is stuffed into a futuristic car by futuristic people (where the hell did they come from?) to be used as fuel (some sort of weird statement about the "energy crisis" of 1973-74). Undoubtedly Peter Fonda was on drugs when he made this (has he ever not been on drugs?).