Starman

I saw this movie as a kid. It makes me feel good. I’m a sap. It’s just what I needed for a pick me up.

Great movie

As advertised

It's really held up well considering when it was made. I think this film was great.

I’ve been to the crater in Winslow where the ending is shot. Good all-around sci-fi fare

Good

This is an oldie, but goodie! If you like Sci-Fi combined with a love story and goid actors, check it out!

Great movie. Romance, drama, comedy. Well written. Bridges is, as usual, fantastic. One of his best.

This 1984 science fiction film, has the distinction of being director John Carpenter's biggest box office smash. It's quite easy to see why, it's a kinda E.T for a more mature audience, although the PG rating no doubt helped get a mass audience. The film opens with Karen Allen (Raiders of the Lost Ark) mourning her dead husband obsessively. Then an alien life form appears, steals his DNA and becomes his physical clone. The two then embark on a road movie. Kidnapper and victim, hunted by the feds. It has most of the great Carpenter's hallmarks, and in Jeff Bridges, a true movie superstar. I have watched and reviewed every one of his movies, and it's interesting that this one faired so well, whilst outstanding films such as 'The Thing' and 'Big Trouble in Little China' bombed, but such is life and this is, no question, an enjoyable film.

Barry Norman once said that Jeff Bridges was never less than good in a movie. I can't disagree.Starman is JB. And JB is Starman.I first saw Starman on Betamax many many years ago and I've always loved the filmIt's another Oscar nomination for the great man and yet another pass over. He's simply superb in Starman.Everything about the movie is absolutely right.Starman is a truly beautifully invigorating feel good movie and JB was rarely better. He is also rarely worse.Blu Ray PQ is outstanding.An essential movieWell it's Jeff Bridges. How could it be otherwise?

From a time when actual talent was paramount, and CGI wasn't such a huge influence as it is today.Jeff Bridges puts in a stellar performance as the alien replicating the human. The wonderful Karen Allen putting her best in as the Widow. Left wide open for a follow up - which did happen in the form of a TV series in America, but not in film, sadly.

jeff bridges and karen allen did excellent jobs, as did all the cast really, and john carpenter in directing a love story shows he can do anything.

I have loved this since it came out, had it on VHS and now on DVD and cannot get enough of it. Forget your modern crappy Sci-Fi films full of gore, for this is storytelling at its best. Go and buy. You will not regret it.