Starman. 1984.
In 1977, the Voyager 2 travels to the outer space with messages of peace and greetings from Earth. A small alien spacecraft comes to Earth to make contact with Earthlings but the military airplanes shoot it down. The spacecraft crashes in Chequamegon Bay, Wisconsin and the alien wanders in a form of energy to the house of the young widow Jenny Hayden, where he uses the DNA from a hair of her husband Scott played by Jeff Bridges to take his human form. The Starman contacts his mother ship and he needs to be in a crater Arizona in a couple of days to return to his star; otherwise he will be left behind and will die.
While essentially a science fiction story involving all the essentials - aliens, the United States Army, government cover-ups, a countrywide chase adventure and a intergalactic love story. Carpenter is able to make sense of the material in such a way that it is both respectful to the sci-fi genre, the sci-fi fans.
Writers Bruce A. Evans and Raynold Gideon. They're able to strip a laughable story of all that makes it laughable and create something new, something that is intelligent, heart-warming, action-packed, and romantic.
Jeff Bridge's was rightly Oscar nominated for his role. He starts out as almost infant like when he arrives, learns to speak, move and navigate with a sense of wide eyed wonderment. Karen Allen plays the widow who is mesmerised by the alien taking on the form of her late husband and slowly warms up to the Starman. The cinematography is brilliantly captured by a great background score. One film i hadn't seen for years but still remebered it for being great.
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