The Man Who Fell To Earth
Space alien crash lands on Earth, seeking help for his drought-stricken planet. He starts a high technology company to get the billions of dollars he needs to build a return spacecraft, and meets Mary-Lou, a girl who falls in love with him. The question of course is whether Newton will ever get to return home.
1951, New York City, New York, USA
6 February 1931, Temple, Texas, USA
30 June 1937, Odessa, Texas, USA
25 March 1928, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
1 October 1917, Wellington, Kansas, USA
June 27, 1956 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
17 September 1929, USA
December 20, 1949 in Evanston, Illinois, USA
8 January 1947, Brixton, London, England, UK
20 June 1947, Norman, Oklahoma, USA
22 August 1933, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
8 June 1939, Wyco, West Virginia, USA
15 May 1948, New York City, New York, USA
5 January 1919, Los Angeles, California, USA
1 May 1924, Alvarado, Texas, USA
9 December 1930, New York City, New York, USA
September 09, 2016
If you're looking for a gripping narrative then look elsewhere; enjoy the B-movie effects and crash zooms, melodramatic acting, eclectic soundtrack, Hockney-esque visuals and Bowie's effortless charisma instead.January 13, 2016
Roeg's exuberance and invention are compromised here by a yarn that carries dank traces of Twilight Zone.July 15, 2011
Feels like a tedious historical artifact. It's a sci-fi "Days of Wine and Roses" for the arthouse crowd.September 09, 2016
The real story is less about the sci-fi and more about the weirdness on Earth, a woozy dream of greed and alcohol and betrayal, as the gentle Newton is preyed upon by hucksters and the American government.January 26, 2017
Nicolas Roeg's mid-'70s sci-fi misfire about an alien (Bowie) trying to save his planet but falling prey to Earth's temptations is self-indulgent garble with a haunting premise.September 05, 2016
There are moments here that approach the sublime.August 25, 2011
The Man Who Fell to Earth today plays like a movie that fell from the sky, origins unknown.January 23, 2017
Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth features a fine performance from David Bowie and a gorgeous production design, but the story is ultimately a choppy, unfocused, and meandering mess that results in a cold and distant film.August 04, 2011
Bowie's screen debut still fascinates whenever he's on-screen, and it's full of little reminders of how much has changed since the movie was made.September 08, 2016
A freaky, compelling concept album of a film.August 25, 2011
The film is a more poignant (and infinitely bleaker) portrait of extraterrestrial homesickness than "E.T."