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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: BRIDGES,JEFF
EAN: 9780767812160
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767812166
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 25, 1998
Running Time: 115 minutes
Sales Rank: 5824
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: December 14, 1984
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Product Description:
An alien whose ship crashes in Wisconsin is found by a distraught widow and assumes the form of her dead husband. He convinces her to drive him to Arizona where his mothership must pick him up in three days or he will die. Government agents are after them
Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: PG
Release Date: 1-MAR-2005
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com essential video:
While most movie buffs are likely to call Halloween the best movie from John Carpenter, others--die-hard romantics and anyone who cried while watching E.T.--might vote in favor of the director's 1984 hit Starman. It's easily Carpenter's warmest and most beguiling film, and the only one that ever earned an Oscar nomination. That honor went specifically to Best Actor nominee Jeff Bridges for his performance as an alien visitor to Earth who is knocked off course and must take an interstate road trip to rendezvous with a mothership from his home planet. To complete this journey he assumes the physical form of the dead husband of a Wisconsin widow (Karen Allen) who responds first with fear, then sympathy, and finally love. Carpenter's graceful strategy is to switch the focus of this E.T.-like film from science fiction to a gentle road-movie love story, made believable by the memorable performances of Bridges and Allen. It's a bit heavy-handed with tenacious government agents who view the Starman as an alien threat (don't they always?), but Carpenter handles the action with intelligent flair, sensitivity, and lighthearted humor. If you're not choked up during the final scene, well, you just might not be human. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - classic
This was perhaps Jeff Bridges' best performance in a movie. He plays an alien who crashes on earth, takes on the appearance of a lady's dead husband, and makes her drive him cross country to meet up with his spaceship. Along the way he learns about what it is like to be human. This is one of my favorite movies of all time. If you can find it (Blockbuster or Netflix would be a good bet) definitely watch it. You will love it.
Rating: - Get the European Starman DVD
I have had the VHS version of this film for years - purchased used from Hollywood video. Pan-and-scan, not the greatest fuzzy picture, mediocre sound (its difficult to remember how bad the VHS format was back when that was all we had). I went to watch this the other day and couldn't find it (I think I lent it to someone and never got it back), so, since I had been thinking about getting the DVD for quite a while I came to Amazon to order it.
Thanks to Wayne Klein's review I ... Read More
Rating: - Alien visits Planet Earth
Jeff Bridges plays the part of an alien visiting Earth. A project initiated by scientists sends an invitation out to space, where in 54 Earth languages, aliens are invited to come and see the human race.
The alien takes on the DNA structure of a dead painter whose wife is still grieving for him and the movie starts as she watches old films of her dead husband. The album is on the table and the alien transforms right before our very eyes into human form. Karen Allen plays the part of ... Read More
Rating:  - A True Prediction.
Scott Hayden was killed in an explosion in a spacecraft accident. The Starman appreared on the scene in Jennie Hayden as a baby developed from birth until grown man, after adapting face from Scott's photograph. He has three days to meet a starship in the Arizona crater in order to return to his planet. Along the way, he got a ride with a cook. What he thinks he will miss the most is eating: the apple pie was magnico and the cherry pie was delicious.
"You are at your very best when ... Read More
Rating: - Great classic!!
This is a great film i grew up watching this movie and till today it still is a great movie. it is a love story and action and drama all rolled into one. The special effects are very good for its time. this is a great classic.
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