Film2000105 min

What Planet Are You From?

Name: What Planet Are You From?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Science Fiction
Released: 2000
Duration: 105 min
Cast: Garry Shandling, Annette Bening, John Goodman, Greg Kinnear, Ben Kingsley

Taste attributes: comedydramaromancescience fictionmonster/alien/supernaturalslowfresh & originallightimaginarysimplelinearglossyenclosedemotive & stirringcomplex relationshiplove conquers all

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"To save his planet, an alien must find a woman on Earth to have his baby. There's just one problem."

Boxlist takeOtherworldly and inventive: a straightforward sci-fi film, glossy rather than gritty. Best if you like surprises over comfort.

Taste details

Pace: slow · Originality: fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: light · Realism: imaginary world · Story: simple · Structure: linear · Look: glossy · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score

Quality rating

5.5 /10

TMDB · 112 votes

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What lines up

Pace: Slow, just how this profile likes it
Linearity: Linear / logical, just how this profile likes it
Setting / scale: Small / confined, just how this profile likes it

What might not click

Intricacy: Basic story, where this profile leans smart / intricate
Realism: Imaginary world, where this profile leans balanced realism

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Synopsis

A highly-evolved planet, whose denizens feel no emotion and reproduce by cloning, plans to take over Earth from the inside by sending an operative, fashioned with a humming, mechanical penis, to impregnate an earthling and stay until the birth. The alien, Harold Anderson, goes to Phoenix as a banker and sets to work finding a mate. His approaches to women are inept, and the humming phallus doesn't help, but on the advice of a banking colleague, he cruises an AA meeting, meets Susan, and somehow convinces her to marry. The clock starts to tick: will she conceive, have a baby, and lose Harold (and the child) to his planet before he discovers emotion and starts to care?

Synopsis: TMDB