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- Richard Benjamin
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My Stepmother Is An Alien. An astrophysicist falls in love with a beautiful woman who is actually a disguised extraterrestrial in this high-concept comedy. 1,191 IMDb 5.4 1 h 47 min 1988. X-Ray PG-13. Comedy · Science Fiction · Cerebral · Cheerful. Available to rent or buy. Rent movie. HD $3.99 $3.59. Buy.
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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 DatabaseApr 3, 2021 · 2021-04-03 19:15:34. Identifier. turner_video_1701. Scanner. Internet Archive Python library 2.0.0.dev3. Trying to rescue her home planet from destruction, a gorgeous extraterrestrial named Celeste arrives on Earth and begins her scientific research. She woos...
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"My Stepmother Is an Alien" tells the story of an eccentric physicist (Aykroyd) who harnesses the power of lightning to send a beam to another galaxy. The response is a visit to Earth by a spaceship bearing Basinger as an alien who takes human form but never gets it quite right.
Purchase My Stepmother Is An Alien on digital and stream instantly or download offline. Dan Aykroyd explores the possibilities of a very modern marriage when Kim Basinger orbits into his world in My Stepmother Is An Alien.
