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The Man Who Fell to Earth is a 1976 British science fantasy drama film directed by Nicolas Roeg and adapted by Paul Mayersberg. Based on Walter Tevis's 1963 novel of the same name, the film follows an extraterrestrial named Thomas Jerome Newton (David Bowie) who crash-lands on Earth seeking a way to ship water to his planet, which is suffering from a severe drought, but finds himself at the ...
- $1.5 million
- 18 March 1976
Apr 8, 1976 · A sci-fi drama starring David Bowie as an alien who comes to Earth to get water for his dying planet. He faces challenges from greedy humans, falls in love, and invents new technologies.
- (28K)
- Drama, Sci-Fi
- Nicolas Roeg
- 1976-04-08
A sci-fi film starring David Bowie as an alien who comes to Earth to find water for his planet. Read critics' reviews, watch the trailer, and find out where to stream or buy the movie.
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- Nicolas Roeg
- R
- David Bowie
The Man Who Fell to Earth: Created by Alex Kurtzman, Jenny Lumet. With Chiwetel Ejiofor, Naomie Harris, Annelle Olaleye, Clarke Peters. An alien arrives on earth with a mission: to learn to become human and find the one woman who can help save his species.
- (9.8K)
- 2022-04-24
- Drama, Sci-Fi
- 60
An alien named Thomas Jerome Newton comes to Earth to get water for his dying planet and starts a high technology company. He faces challenges from business rivals, the government, and his own addiction to alcohol and TV.
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Paul Mayersberg. It requires an almost courageous leap of the imagination to take Nicholas Roeg's "The Man Who Fell to Earth" seriously. Here's a film so preposterous and posturing, so filled with gaps of logic and continuity, that if it weren't so solemn there'd be the temptation to laugh aloud. And yet, at the same time, this is a film filled ...
