A yard sale camera contains photos of alien abduction. What could possibly go wrong? (Spoiler: everything.)
A Pulitzer Prize winning photographer is fired from his job for not being sensationalistic enough. After he purchases an old camera at a yard sale, he discovers some undeveloped film in it, including photos of an apparent alien abduction. When he goes public with the photos, he garners the attention of his former boss, the government and a woman who thinks her father was the abductee.
Acting
Rod Steiger chewing scenery as unhinged Colonel
Production
Charming low-budget Airstream aesthetic
Director
Sam Irvin
Billy Campbell
Delbert Mosley
Wendy Schaal
Paige Davis
Bill Cobbs
Lyman Weeks
Rod Steiger
Col. Buck Gunner
Jill St. John
Bunny Wells
Julie Brown
Joleen
P. J. Soles
Religious Nut
Leslie Bevis
Deputy
Paul Dooley
Emmett Davis
David Rasche
Emmett Davis
Bobcat Goldthwait
Cobb
Billy Bob Thornton
Jailbird
Carel Struycken
Mr. Burke
Tom Kenny
Man in Lobby
Cindy Morgan
Judith Daws
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Sam Irvin started as Brian De Palma's assistant; this was his second feature after decades in genre TV.
Released during peak X-Files fever, it satirized the very alien obsession it hoped to cash in on.
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