Second viewing; previously viewed between 1983 and 1986.
An intelligent extraterrestrial gets stranded on Earth and a little boy befriends him.
The kids are good actors. The house is lovely. Otherwise I didn't really find much of value in this production; this second viewing didn't improve it to me. One curious thing about it is that the generally accepted notion that it is a paean to empathy is seriously problematic. The alien's "empathic" organism actually made the kid so sick that his life was in danger. If there's a moral to this story, it's that aliens are dangerous.
For further reading: The Alien (unproduced film) - Wikipedia
Rating: 32 (unchanged)
