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DVD : Starman (Full Screen Edition)In association with Amazon.com List Price: $14.94 Amazon.com's Price: $10.49 You Save: $4.45 (30%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: Sony 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 Studio: Sony Pictures Theatrical Release Date: December 14, 1984 Sales Rank: 5124 MPN: COLD04129D Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: An alien and a young woman fall in love on their way to meet his spaceship. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 04/22/2008 Starring: Jeff Bridges Karen Allen Run time: 115 minutes Rating: Pg 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Full Screen????I love Starman and have been waiting for a wide screen version forever. What's up with this full screen nonsense? I advise people to wait and buy the DVD when the studio wises up and releases the widescreen version all the fans of this movie deserve! Rating:  - Could have been better in someone else's hands...I love me some Jeff Bridges (seriously, one of our greatest working actors today) and I thought he was outstanding in this science fiction melodrama; but the film as a whole was a little too hokey for my taste. I know a lot of people love this movie; but honestly... So the film revolves around Starman, an alien being who gets shifted off his course and winds up taking on the identity of the recently deceased husband of Jenny Hayden. He persuades Jenny to take him across ... Read More Rating:  - classicThis 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 DVDI 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 was ... Read More Rating: - Alien visits Planet EarthJeff 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 the ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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