Review – Starman

This is the best of John Carpenter’s non-Carpenter-y movies. He has the budget, the cast and the script to do a rare, fine job of something besides horror. An alien (Jeff Bridges) summoned to Earth by the record in one of the Voyager probes gets shot down. Assuming the form of the dead husband of a grieving woman (Karen Allen), he kidnaps her and forces her to drive him to Arizona. Along the way the pair draw closer as he gradually learns to be more human. Though the basic plot is ET for grownups, the production includes enough small touches to keep things interesting. Mildly amusing