Earth Girls Are Easy

Earth Girls Are Easy

Infobox_Film
name = Earth Girls Are Easy


caption = "Earth Girls Are Easy" movie poster
director = Julien Temple
producer = Tony Garnett
Duncan Henderson
Terrence E. McNally
writer = Julie Brown
Charlie Coffey
Terrence E. McNally
starring = Geena Davis
Jeff Goldblum
Jim Carrey
Damon Wayans
music = Ray Colcord
Nile Rodgers
Julie Brown | cinematography = Oliver Stapleton
editing = Richard Halsey
distributor = Vestron Pictures
released = May 12, 1989 (USA)
runtime = 100 min.
country = UK/USA
language = English
budget = $10 million (estimated)
gross = $4 million (sub-total)
amg_id = 1:15119
imdb_id = 0097257

"Earth Girls Are Easy" is a 1988 American comedy/musical film directed by Julien Temple. It stars Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Michael McKean, Julie Brown, and hitherto largely unknown comedians Jim Carrey and Damon Wayans. The film is marketed with the tagline "An out-of-this-world, down-to-earth comedy adventure". The film's plot is based on the song "Earth Girls Are Easy" from Julie Brown's 1984 mini-album "Goddess In Progress".

Plot summary

The movie begins with three aliens, a blue one, a red one, and a yellow one, flying in a spaceship. While watching a music holographic video of a multi-coloured woman, they come across Earth. And, deciding that there were girls down there, decided to go down to Earth.

Valerie Gail (Davis) is a valley girl manicurist who works for the "Curl Up & Dye" hair salon. When she feels her cold fiancé Dr. Ted Gallagher (Rocket) is slipping away from her, she attempts to seduce him with a new look; instead she catches him cheating on her. The day after throwing him out, she is sunbathing when a spaceship housing three aliens crash lands in her pool. Not knowing what to do, she takes them to her best friend Candy Pink (Brown, who also co-wrote and co-produced). After shaving off the aliens' fur, they turn out to be incredibly hunky looking men. They all go out and party at Los Angeles nightclubs.

The three aliens — Wiploc (Carrey), the red alien; Zeebo (Wayans), the yellow alien; and Mac (Goldblum), the blue alien — absorb human culture through ten minutes of television, and Valerie takes them out into the human world. Predictable social blunders ensue. Soon Valerie is in love with studly Mac, and after a night of lovemaking (which she's wary of at first, until seeing that Mac is indeed anatomically correct for her) she decides to abandon her valley life in favor of space travel with her hunky new alien lover.

Cast

Award nominations

Fantasporto
*Nominated: Best Film, Julien Temple (1990)

Independent Spirit Awards
*Nominated: Best Cinematography, Oliver Stapleton (1990)

Golden Raspberry Awards
*Nominated: Worst Supporting Actress, Angelyne (1990) (To note, Angelyne appears in the film for less than two minutes.)

tage show

In 2005 a staged reading/performance of a musical play version of the film was performed several times in Los Angeles. The character of Valerie was played by Kristin Chenoweth, with Julie Brown reprising her role as Candy. The play did not go into production but memorably there was tension between Brown and Chenoweth because Chenoweth wanted to perform Brown's well known song from the film, "'Cause I'm a Blonde". Brown insisted on singing it herself.

Trivia

*The main character Val (in a rephrased misquotation (in ) to The Wizard of Oz) says to Wiploc "I think I'll miss you least of all" when she is still planning to remain on earth as the aliens prepare to depart. This mirrors Dorothy's comment to the Scarecrow that she will "Miss him most of all" as she prepares to leave Oz.

External links

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