Product Description: An alien and a young woman fall in love on their way to meet his spaceship. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 04/22/2008 Starring: Jeff Bridges Karen Allen Run time: 115 minutes Rating: Pg
Amazon.com essential video: While most movie buffs are likely to call Halloween the best movie from John Carpenter, others--die-hard romantics and anyone who cried while watching E.T.--might vote in favor of the director's 1984 hit Starman. It's easily Carpenter's warmest and most beguiling film, and the only one that ever earned an Oscar nomination. That honor went specifically to Best Actor nominee Jeff Bridges for his performance as an alien visitor to Earth who is knocked off course and must take an interstate road trip to rendezvous with a mothership from his home planet. To complete this journey he assumes the physical form of the dead husband of a Wisconsin widow (Karen Allen) who responds first with fear, then sympathy, and finally love. Carpenter's graceful strategy is to switch the focus of this E.T.-like film from science fiction to a gentle road-movie love story, made believable by the memorable performances of Bridges and Allen. It's a bit heavy-handed with tenacious government agents who view the Starman as an alien threat (don't they always?), but Carpenter handles the action with intelligent flair, sensitivity, and lighthearted humor. If you're not choked up during the final scene, well, you just might not be human. --Jeff Shannon
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Rating: - Could have been better in someone else's hands...
I love me some Jeff Bridges (seriously, one of our greatest working actors today) and I thought he was outstanding in this science fiction melodrama; but the film as a whole was a little too hokey for ... Read More
Rating: - classic
This was perhaps Jeff Bridges' best performance in a movie. He plays an alien who crashes on earth, takes on the appearance of a lady's dead husband, and makes her drive him cross country to meet up with ... Read More
Rating: - Get the European Starman DVD
I have had the VHS version of this film for years - purchased used from Hollywood video. Pan-and-scan, not the greatest fuzzy picture, mediocre sound (its difficult to remember how bad the VHS format was ... Read More
Rating: - Alien visits Planet Earth
Jeff Bridges plays the part of an alien visiting Earth. A project initiated by scientists sends an invitation out to space, where in 54 Earth languages, aliens are invited to come and see the human race.
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Rating: - A True Prediction.
Scott Hayden was killed in an explosion in a spacecraft accident. The Starman appreared on the scene in Jennie Hayden as a baby developed from birth until grown man, after adapting face from Scott's photograph. ... Read More
- Could have been better in someone else's hands...
- classic