Running Time: 1:55:16 Rating: PG-13 Genre: Sci-Fi
Plot: An alien takes the form of a young widow’s husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona. The government tries to stop them.
“Not Bowie – Bridges. Jeff Bridges (The Big Lebowski) falls to earth, then, falls in love with Karen Allen (Raiders of the Lost Ark) in John Carpenter’s space alien love story.”
Starring: Karen Allen, Jeff Bridges, Charles Martin Smith, Ted White, Richard Jaeckel
Director: John Carpenter
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John Carpenter directed sci-fi cult classic that proves that aliens really do have feelings.
- This script was being developed at Columbia at the same time as another script about an alien visitation. The studio didn’t want to make both, so they decided to make this one and let the other script go to a rival studio. The other script was for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
- Unfortunately this is the only John Carpenter film to have an Academy Award nomination (Jeff Bridges, Best Actor).
Jeff Bridges was great in Starman, Fearless, The Big Lebowski, The Fabulous Baker Boys, and looking back was as well in The Last Picture Show, but the performance that I think he should have been nominated for was in The Fisher King. Robin Williams was a formidable counterpoint to Bridge’s more nuanced portrayal of suicidally despondent DJ who finds redemption in helping a deranged homeless man (Williams) who was a victim of a horrible mistake he (Bridges) made.
Since Starman, Jeff Bridges has been among my very favourite actors. Besides Starman, The Fisher King is my favourite of his performances. What I love too about Jeff Bridges is how watchable he is even in movies that aren’t always stellar… he grows his characters organically, morphing into them seamlessly. How much more can you ask of any actor?
It was too early to garner an Academy Award for his title role in (John Carpenter’s) Starman
but this far down the line with a number of indisputably great performances under his belt, it is time to give the award to/ thank Jeff Bridges. He deserves it because he earned it. It should start tonight with a Golden Globe for Crazy Heart.
To get into character as hard-living country legend Bad Blake in Crazy Heart, Jeff Bridges brushed up on his skills as a musician – and consumed more than his fair share of junk food.
“Normally I watch what I eat. I feel better when I’m in shape and not too overweight,” the star told PEOPLE at Sunday’s New York Times Arts & Leisure Weekend. “When you’re playing a part like [this] … If you feel like a pint of Häagen-Dazs, you hammer the Häagen-Dazs.”
Turning to food to get into character is nothing new for the celebrated actor. “It’s something I always do,” Bridges, 60, who … explained. “You think of the physicality of the character and what kind of food you need to help create the physical shape you’re looking for.”
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Kris Kristofferson, whose looks and legend Bridges channeled for the role enjoyed the actor’s look-alike performance and joked about sharing screen time in the future.
“We saw the movie together and Kris laughed at how much I reminded him of him,” said Bridges. “We looked in the mirror and said, ‘We gotta play brothers, man! We had a good laugh.’ ”
Bridges’s onscreen love interest Maggie Gyllenhaal has earned high praise for her work. “She was a wonderful actor, one of the best I’ve ever worked with. She’s so fresh and open,” says Bridges. “One of the things I try to aspire to is to make it feel like it’s happening for the first time – that you’re not really doing it for an audience, it’s real life. She approaches her work in a similar way.”
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“The Oscar buzz is great because it’s bringing attention to this movie that I’m so pleased with. You can have a movie that you’re really happy about but it doesn’t get distributed,” Bridges explained. “We’ve got that going and people seem to like it. A small movie like this, you need festivals and awards to bring attention to it – it’s all wonderful.”
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