Dan Aykroyd
Steven Mills
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May 17, 2023 · From IMDB:A creature from another planet tries to seduce a shy Earth physicist to gain control over his researches. The result of this important mission much...
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Steven Mills is a widowed scientist working on different ways to send radio waves into deep space. After he sends a radio wave out of the galaxy, it hits a planet (Cosine N to the 8th), causing a disruption of gravity on the planet. Celeste is sent to investigate who could have done it and how it was done, believing it was an attack. She is aided b...
Development and writing
Screenwriter Jericho Stone developed the story under the working title They’re Coming as a drama, an allegory about child abuse. He pitched this version of the story to Paramount Pictures in 1981. Paramount agreed to option the story and paid him to write the screenplay, but felt it would be more believable as a comedy. On June 20, 1984, Variety reported that Catalina Production Group was planning to start principal photography on They're Coming in late 1984 for Paramount, naming the screenwr...
The soundtrack album was released by Polydor Records. 1. Room to Move - Animotion(4:12) 2. Not Just Another Girl - Ivan Neville(4:05) 3. Be the One - Jackie Jackson(4:15) 4. I Like the World - Cameo(6:11) 5. One Good Lover - Siren (3:51) 6. Hot Wives - Dan Aykroyd(2:53) 7. Pump Up the Volume - M.A.R.R.S.(4:06) 8. Enjoy - Alan Silvestri(2:54) 9. The...
A July press release for the film stated that My Stepmother Is An Alien would be released on November 23, 1988, but it was later pushed to December 9. The film premiered on December 3, 1988, in Washington, D.C., an event attended by stars Aykroyd and Basinger, as well as President George H. W. Bush, First Lady Barbara Bush and Vice President Dan Qu...
Box office
The film opened at number seven, grossing $2,066,980 in the opening weekend. It went on to gross $13,854,000 in the United States,becoming a box-office failure.
Critical response
The film was met with negative reviews. Roger Ebert wrote, "Basinger gets most of the good comic moments in the movie and does with them what she can, but Benjamin and his writers seem to have run short of invention. Most of the plot developments are foregone conclusions, and most of the big set pieces (like a wedding) are handled routinely, without inspiration." Janet Maslin, reviewing the film for The New York Times, panned the film's screenplay and humor, as well as the performance of Dan...
A South Korean branch of Baskin-Robbinsreleased an ice cream flavor called "Mom is an alien" named after the movie.
Benjamin, Richard (2021). Cosmic Encounters: Directing My Stepmother is An Alien (Blu-ray audio essay). Arrow Films.
My Stepmother Is an Alien at the American Film Institute CatalogMy Stepmother Is an Alien at AllMovieMy Stepmother Is an Alien at IMDbMy Stepmother Is an Alien at the TCM Movie DatabaseMy Stepmother Is an Alien: Directed by Richard Benjamin. With Dan Aykroyd, Kim Basinger, Jon Lovitz, Alyson Hannigan. A creature from another planet tries to seduce a shy Earth physicist to gain control over his researches. The result of this important mission much exceeded her expectations.
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A low-paid widowed scientist (Dan Aykroyd) makes contact with aliens and they send an agent (Kim Basinger) to meet him. She has a one-eyed serpentine counselor in her purse and ends up marrying the physicist, even though the counselor’s intention is to destroy the planet (!).
