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The Brother from Another Planet profoundly illustrates, modern life is more unfair than it needs to be….It may not be the perfect John Sayles film, the perfect science fiction movie or the perfect film about black life — but it manages to seamlessly mix wit, slapstick, poignancy and politics.
The movie is the marvelous “The Brother From Another Planet,” 33 years old but still current. Sayles’ sci-fi film is less concerned with effects and hero’s journey bravado than it is with faces, communities and the systems of oppression in which we live, trying to navigate or fight them every day.
Brother From Another Planet (1984) An alien escaped slave from another planet crash lands in New York City, in Harlem. He looks like any other Black man except he is mute, has three large toes that nobody notices, and has telekinetic powers. 246 1 h 48 min 1984. 18+. Science Fiction · Comedy · Cerebral · Tense. This video is currently ...
The Brother from Another Planet is a slyly endearing and moral story. It touches upon such diverse themes as extra-terrestrial life, narcissism, drugs, slavery, technology, conscience, and community. In the opening scene, a spaceship crashes and a black man (Joe Morton) struggles out of New York Harbor onto Ellis Island.
The Brother from Another Planet. In this black comedy from John Sayles, a terrified space pilot (Joe Morton) is forced to ditch his rickety-looking UFO in the Hudson River. Dawn breaks over the twin towers of the World Trade Center as The Brother begins to explore his new surroundings. On the streets of Harlem, surrounded by people who look ...
The Brother From Another Planet, takes a little while to get into but gives us an entertaining story, a likable main character and likable side characters, interesting situations and the script is filled with good dialogue, good character development, is full of smart satire and unusual characters and lots of unique situations and plot twists.
