Starman (1984)

Great Sci-fict movie, even after all these years
You don't get too many Sci-fiction movies with feeling. This is one of them. I especially love the line by Jeff Bridges where he comments on what he loves best about humanity "You are at your best, when things are at their worst".

Heartwarming, thought-provoking and fun
This is a movie everyone can love, not just science fiction fans. Jeff Bridges, young and buffed, plays the starman who uses DNA in a lock of hair from the husband of a grieving young widow to clone a body for himself. Science fiction fans will love watching the clone grow in a very realistic special effects scene; fans of buffed young men will love the result.

He learns quickly, but oddly. The whole movie constitutes a playing out of the old adage of "to see ourselves as others see us." And of course, much of it really is very funny. Because much of American life is very funny, when you think about it. Starman will make you think about it.

There are not a lot of special effects, but there are several really wonderful concepts, like when the starman revives a doe that had been tied across the trunk of a hunter's car.

But a woman cannot run around with a clone of her beloved husband for too long before sex comes to mind. And it does. Starman gleefully declares it is better than Dutch Apple Pie! As Pennsylvania Dutch myself, that's pretty darn high praise.

"I have left you with a baby," Starman says. "No, that's not possible; I can't have a baby. I'm sterile." But of course it is there.

He has to go back, or he will die. He tells the young widow, who is now effectively losing her husband a second time, to tell the child about him. As the Starman explains, it is her husband's baby, but it is also his.

It's a better movie than I am able to describe. Buy it and cherish it!

Starman
Starman is one of my favorite movies and Jeff Bridges is one of my favorite actors. What more can be said. Both of them together in a heart jerker. I love it and am so pleased to have my own copy. I even have it on VHS.