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Release year: 1988

Storyline

In 1988, Earth makes the first contact with an alien civilization. In 1991, these aliens, known as Newcomers, slowly begin to be integrated into human society after three years of quarantine.

Top credits

Directors

Graham Baker

Writers

Rockne S. O'Bannon

Cast

James Caan — Matthew Sykes
Mandy Patinkin — Sam Francisco
Terence Stamp — William Harcourt
Kevyn Major Howard — Rudyard Kipling

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Did you know

• Sam Francisco (Mandy Patinkin) was originally going to be named George Jetson, but Hanna-Barbera wouldn't give the rights to the name. The decision to call his character "George" in the movie was kept as an in-joke to the George Jetson character name.

• After Harcourt's transformation he is no longer played by Terence Stamp, who refused to wear the more elaborate make-up.

• When James Caan was asked about this film during an interview with the AV Club in 2013, he replied, "Why the f****...Why would you bring up that?" The interviewer Will Harris said, "A lot of people actually like the film. I do, for one." Caan continued, "Yeah, well, I don't know. I don't have too many...I mean, I loved Mandy Patinkin. Mandy was a riot. But...I don't know. It was a lot of silly stuff, creatively. And we had this English director [Graham Baker] who I wasn't really that fond of. I mean, nice guy, but...it was just one of those things where, you know, you don't quit, you get through it. It certainly wasn't one of...I wouldn't write it down as one of my favorite movies. But it was pretty popular."