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Subject: The Brother from Another Planet
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Date: Mon, 15-Oct-84 00:24:59 EDT
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   This is my first posting to the net...I hope you will
forgive any errors (regarding the mysterious first line
for example).  I think the group is great reading (for
the most part, although I must agree that Joe-Bob (or
whatever his name is) got old fast) -- lots of good
reviews, discussions, information, etc.  

   Now, the Brother.  I really thought this movie was
excellent.  It's right up there with Repo Man.  It
succeeded in capturing the feeling of someone landing
someplace *really different* that Moscow on the Hudson
and Splash and the Wizard of Oz tried with varying
degrees of success to get.  It was hilarious, and at the
same time captured the vulnerability, wonder, fear, and
strangeness felt by the stranger in a strange land.

  It is quirky, but it is not a *special effects* movie.
You might like it even if you are not the Star Wars type.
A lot of *humanness* in this movie.



   On the subject of best movies of the eighties:

      The Stuntman    Year of Living Dangerously
      Tender Mercies  Repo Man

   I loved them all for really different reasons.

       
   Life is more like it is now than 
   ever was.        
                         - Brenda Rogers