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Friday, August 1, 2008

Starman, 1984

This was, if not Mike’s favorite movie, at least in the top five.
NASA’s Voyager missions sent golden records into space with “greetings” in many languages, images, music and information about Earth and humans. It was an ambitious invitation to extraterrestrials.
The movie "Starman" ponders the question of what might happen when extraterrestrial, Jeff Bridges as Starman, pays Earth a call.
Will Earthlings set an extra plate or sharpen the dissection knives? Not a tough call if you have watched many movies about E.T.
Most of the action concerns Starman’s journey to rendezvous with his ship and rejoin those of his own kind. He has abducted a traveling companion: Karen Allen as Jenny Hayden. At first she resists helping Starman so far as she is able. For besides kidnapping her, he has cloned her dead husband’s body to use while on Earth! But Starman gains her trust and she introduces him to Earthly things that matter, like apple pie.

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