When an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona, the government tries to stop them.
Acting
Bridges' Oscar-nominated alien physicality is genuinely unhinged.
Direction
Carpenter's softest film — he actually believed in love, apparently.
Score
Jack Nitzche's synth-strings will live in your head rent-free.
Director
John Carpenter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bridges based his physical performance on watching birds, specifically how they move their heads. The 'Starman walk' was entirely improvised.
Carpenter made this as his 'commercial' film after The Thing bombed. Ironically, it's now considered his most emotionally sincere work.
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