Starman starring Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen


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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.

Synopsis
This magical story of love between an extra-terrestrial and a human woman won the hearts of critics and audiences everywhere. Starman, a gentle and kind alien, lands in Wisconsin and assumes the human form of Jenny Hayden's recently deceased husband. In order for Starman to return home, he must go to a meeting point in Arizona, so, after her initial shock, the grieving Jenny agrees to drive him there. Unfortunately, nasty government types who wish to capture and study the otherworldly visitor are hot on their trail. And the situation grows more complicated still when Jenny and the sweet-natured Starman begin to fall in love. Now Starman must decide whether to remain on Earth -- and risk his life -- or go home and leave Jenny forever...

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An alien lands on Earth and transforms himself into what appears to be an ordinary human. Later, he is assisted by a young woman in a desperate race against time and the F.B.I. To rendezvous with his alien mothership. Academy Award Nominations: Best Actor--Jeff Bridges.

 

 

 

 

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