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Starman is a 1984 American science fiction romance drama film directed by John Carpenter that tells the story of a non-corporeal alien who has come to Earth and cloned a human body (portrayed by Jeff Bridges) in response to the invitation found on the gold phonograph record installed on the Voyager 2 space probe.
Dec 14, 1984 · Starman: Directed by John Carpenter. With Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith, Richard Jaeckel. An alien takes the form of a young Wisconsin widow's husband and makes her drive him to his departure point in Arizona.
Scrambling, the so-called Starman (Jeff Bridges) inhabits the body of a late Wisconsinite and kidnaps the dead man's widow, Jenny Hayden (Karen Allen).
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- Sci-Fi, Romance
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The starman of the title is a ball of glowing light. He, or it, has traveled to Earth in response to the invitation from Voyager, but of course the Air Force treats the spacecraft as a possible invader and shoots missiles at it.
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An alien from an advanced civilization abducts a young widow to help him travel cross-country in order to rendezvous with his spaceship.
Summaries. An alien takes the form of a young Wisconsin widow's husband and makes her drive him to his departure point in Arizona. Distrustful government agents, along with a more ambivalent scientist, give pursuit in hopes of intercepting them.
After presenting the screen's most gruesome depiction of interstellar visitors in 1982's The Thing, director John Carpenter took a decidedly more gentle and optimistic look at the skies with his third foray into science fiction, Starman (1984).
Overview. When an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona, the government tries to stop them. John Carpenter. Director. Raynold Gideon.
Dec 14, 1984 · Jenny is at first an unwilling participant in a trip which becomes a dangerous flight across America as the two are pursued by the U.S. Army (led by NSA Chief Fox, played by Richard Jaeckel) and secretly aided by a sensitive government agent named Shermin (Charles Martin Smith).