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The Brother from Another Planet is a 1984 low-budget American science fiction film, written and directed by John Sayles. The film stars Joe Morton as an escaped extraterrestrial slave trying to find a new life on Earth. [3]
Sep 14, 1984 · The Brother from Another Planet: Directed by John Sayles. With Joe Morton, Rosanna Carter, Ray Ramirez, Yves Rene. A mute alien with the appearance of a black human is chased by outer-space bounty hunters through the streets of Harlem.
The film stars Joe Morton as a visitor from outer space, who looks like a black human being, unless you look carefully at the three funny toes on his feet. He arrives on Earth in a spaceship that looks borrowed from the cheapest B space operas from the 1950s, swims ashore, and finds himself on Manhattan Island.
An escaped slave from an alien planet lands in New York City and tries to adapt to life on the streets of Harlem, where he gets a job as a repair man due to his amazing abilities at fixing machines. Meanwhile, he's pursued by two agents from his home world who are intent on returning there with him.
"The Brother" (Joe Morton) is an alien and escaped slave on the run from his home planet. After he lands in New York City, he tries to adapt to life on the streets of Harlem....
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A mute space alien crash-lands on Ellis Island. He blends in with New Yorkers, holds one-si ...more. Welcome to a world of crude beauty... of danger and excitement... of wonders, legend, and ...
The Brother is an alien who has crash-landed on Earth, in New York City. While mute, strongly empathic, and able to fix things, he resembles a Black man with strange feet. His attempt to make a place for himself in Harlem is an allegory for the immigrant experience in the United States.
John Sayles's quirky sci-fi drama about a mute three-toed alien who lands in Ellis Island and goes on to explore the neighbourhood of Harlem moves to the beat of its own drum.
An alien slave crash-lands in New York City while being pursued by two Men in Black bounty hunters. His attempt to find a place for himself on Earth parallels that of the immigrant experience.
An alien in the guise of a mute African-American man lands in Harlem and tries to fit into the neighborhood, but also discovers how difficult people of his color have it on this planet.
