- Spaced Invaders
Infobox Film
name = Spaced Invaders
imdb_id = 0100666
writer = Patrick Read Johnson
Scott Lawrence Alexander
starring =Douglas Barr Ariana Richards Royal Dano Gregg Berger Wayne Alexander
director =Patrick Read Johnson
music = David Russo
producer = Luigi Cingolani
distributor =Touchstone Pictures
released =April 27 1990 (USA )
runtime = 100 min.
language = English
budget = $3,000,000 (estimated)"Spaced Invaders" is a 1990
science fiction comedy directed byPatrick Read Johnson and starringDouglas Barr ,Royal Dano andAriana Richards .Plot
As the armed forces of the planet
Mars fight a vast interstellar war under the direction of imperious "Enforcer Drones", the idiotic crew of a small Martian spaceship intercepts a rebroadcast ofOrson Welles ' 1938 "The War of the Worlds" radio dramatization. Mistaking this for the real thing, they land the ship in a podunk, drought-stricken farming community (Big Bean, Illinois) and ineptly attempt to conquer Earth. Because it isHalloween , their appearance is taken to be very good costumes, except by a handful of locals who come to realize the truth, among them the town sheriff (Barr), his young daughter (Richards), and a crotchety elderly farmer named Wrenchmuller (Dano). In a comedy of errors, the Martians eventually realize they have made a horrible mistake, but the intransigence of their ship's resident Enforcer Drone threatens to cause a mass catastrophe. The sympathetic humans manage to destroy the Drone, and help the grateful "invaders" return to space.Influences
The title of the flim is a play on the video game
Space Invaders .During the end title music, there is an homage to the TV series "
My Favorite Martian " as the first bars of the show's theme song are sung by one of the Invaders.External links
*imdb title|id=0100666|title=Spaced Invaders
* [http://www.war-ofthe-worlds.co.uk/spaced_invaders.htm "Review of the movie at War Of The Worlds Invasion"]
* [http://www.spacedinvaders.net.ms "Fanpage containing summary, pictures, cast and fan-art"]
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