The Brother from Another Planet

Category: 14
All Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Release Year: 1984
Country: USA
Runtime: 108
Rating: (0)
Languages: English, Spanish
Director: John Sayles
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

Welcome to a world of crude beauty... of danger and excitement... of wonders, legend, and imagination... Welcome to Harlem, Brother.

He's not just another out-of-towner.

This illegal alien chose the New York streets over the men in black.

Writing by: John Sayles - writer

Produced by: Peggy Rajski - producer
Maggie Renzi - producer

Cast: Joe Morton - The Brother
Rosanna Carter - West Indian Woman
Ray Ramirez - Hispanic Man
Yves Rene - Haitian Man
Peter Richardson - Islamic Man
Ginny Yang - Korean Shopkeeper
Daryl Edwards - Fly
Steve James - Odell
Leonard Jackson - Smokey
Bill Cobbs - Walter
Maggie Renzi - Noreen

Music: Martin Brody Mason Daring
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Plot Outline: A mute alien is chased by outer-space bounty hunters through the streets of Harlem in this thought-provoking cult classic.
Plot: The Brother is an alien who has crash-landed on Earth, in New York City. While mute, strongly empathic, and able to fix things, he resembles a Black man with strange feet. His attempt to make a place for himself in Harlem is an allegory for the immigrant experience in the United States. Meanwhile, two bounty hunters from the Brother's home planet arrive and try to capture him.

Movie Quotes: Fly: (about Harlem) I'd rather be a cockroach on a baseboard up here than the Emperor of Mississippi.


Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The guys in the Carnegie Deli continue to banter over part of the end credits.

Goofs: We know about 7 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: After sitting on the steps listening to the cop, The Brother walks away leaving the cop sitting there. The cop has his cap on when they're both on the steps, but in the next shot of The Brother walking away, his cap is off and he soon puts it on.

Trivia: There are 3 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• John Sayles stated that in choosing the steel drum for the music on this movie, with its unusual and technological, yet still organic, quality, he was partly influenced by the zither music from Carol Reed's The Third Man (1949).
• The "Men In Black" are named Uno (played by John Sayles) and Dos (played by David Strathairn). Although they are not named in the film or end credits, the names were revealed in a photo caption on page 39 of Starlog magazine (#86, September 1984) as part of an interview with director Sayles.
• The entrance and exit scenes of the Men in Black's first appearance in the bar were filmed entirely in reverse with the camera upside down, according to director Sayles' commentary on the restored print. The two men started on the bar stools, then backed out of the room for the entrance; while the exit was filmed with the two outside the bar and backing into it, including Sedaris replacing the cookies in the cookie bowl.

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