Directed by John Carpenter
Written by Bruce A. Evans & Raynold Gideon
Starring Jeff Bridges & Karen Allen
Whenever I mention John Carpenter to people, those who are even aware of who he is talk about how he is a horror director. While there is no denying that Carpenter's filmography has a strong amount of horror films in there, he has also some fine action films (Escape From New York & Big Trouble in Little China) and Sci-Fi films (The Thing, Memoirs of an Invisible Man) that should elevate him to a higher status then being just a horror director. This 1984 Oscar-nominated movie Starman is another strong testament that Carpenter could direct outside of the horror genre.
An extra-terrestrial crashes into the house of a woman, played by Karen Allen. The alien then precedes to take the form of her deceased husband (Jeff Bridges) and asks her to help him return to his homeland. During their quest the two embark on a romance, something that you don't really see in a Carpenter film.
Sure, reading the plot you see a lot of similarities to Spielberg's E.T (1982), but Starman is kind of a more grown-up version of that story. And as I've always been just lukewarm to Spielberg's films, I'd take Starman over E.T any day of the week.
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