Audience Rating: Parental Guidance
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 5024165577974
Format: Dolby, PAL, Surround Sound, Widescreen
Label: Laser Disc Distribution
Manufacturer: Laser Disc Distribution
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Laser Disc Distribution
Release Date: January 29, 1996
Running Time: 111 minutes
Sales Rank: 2590
Studio: Laser Disc Distribution
Theatrical Release Date: December 14, 1984

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
Starman is easily director John Carpenter's warmest and most beguiling film, and the only one that ever earned him an Oscar nomination. While most movie buffs are likely to call Halloween the best movie from Carpenter, die-hard romantics and anyone who cried while watching E.T. will vote in favour of the director's 1984 hit.

Jeff Bridges is the 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 humour. If you're not choked up during the final scene, well, you just might not be human. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

On the DVD: Starman on disc is presented in anamorphic widescreen transferred from NTSC and letterboxed at 2.35.1. The picture is clear and sharp with very little grain. The soundtrack is crisp, perfectly complementing the romantic nature of this film. The overriding reason to shell out on this special edition is the commentary from John Carpenter and Jeff Bridges, in which director and actor show a genuine affection for the film. Other extras are a featurette filmed around the original release in 1884, a music video starring Bridges and costar Karen Allen covering The Everly Brothers classic "All I Have to Do is Dream", and a trailer for Close Encounters of the Third Kind. --Kristen Bowditch




Rating: - Starman
I loved this film, it is quite simply.. beautiful.
It will interest sci fi fans with it space man content but also involves you on the human feeling level with a purity that will make you well up.
It will also make you take another long hard look at what we... humans.. would look like to someone visiting us... an it isn't good.
great film recommended...bridges is as always brilliant

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Rating: - Gentle and thoughtful sci-fi
This underrated sci-fi is a joy to watch. Karen Allen stars as Jenny Hayden, a young widow who wakes one night to find someone in her house who looks exactly like her dead husband Scott. Jeff Bridges plays an alien who is sent on an investigative mission after his kind intercepted the Voyager probe, which was carrying details of earth. In a naive attempt not to frighten Jenny, the alien takes on the form of Scott.
The alien has crash landed and has only 24 hours to cross the USA to a rendevous ... Read More

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Rating: - Wonderful, often under-estimated little film.
Starman never gets the critics reviews it deserves. Carpenter is best known for his more brash, out-and-out scary films (The Thing), but Starman is gentle, well thought out, well paced, and well acted. Look out for Charles Martin Smith's Shermin, which is a brilliant piece of character acting. I defy anyone with an ounce of tenderness not to be genuinely touched by the bond that develops between Allen and Bridges. Some laugh out loud moments too. "Scott's" journey is an allegory for the human condition. ... Read More

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Rating: - Universal Love
A UFO is located and shot down. Little did we know that the occupant was invited. Realizing his predicament the being finds a lock of hair from an expired Jeff Bridges and morphs into his naked bod. Naturally he is spotted by the widow (Karen Allen) and forces her to take him to a pickup point. Meanwhile back at the ranch the agency in charge of picking up stray aliens is in hot pursuit. They get a hot clue "He burnt a lug wrench and said 'greetings'?"
Will he make it? Will they catch him and do unspeakable ... Read More

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Rating: - What a lovely, heartwarming film.
It is total lunacy of course. But who cares? Films are meant to be enjoyed and I often watch films with many guys and girls watching with me. All the girls were crying to this....

The word "alien" sounds terrifying; the director of Starman knows this so he based the alien character around the beloved, dead husband (Scott)of a young woman. She is terrified by the alien to start with, then starts to trust him, and finally loves him. It probably sounds yucky - however, the director stops it being such.
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