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Originally posted by Disco Stu
As Sara said, it makes "Thelma & Louise" look like a pussy movie.
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Well, ....no, I'm sorry, that's just too easy!
I'll toss in a vote for The Brother From Another Planet. John Sayles' second film is a low-budget oddball about an alien who lands on earth after fleeing his own world. He ends up in Harlem and fits right in because he looks like an African-American human, but he can't talk, so everyone makes assumptions for him. It's sort of like an inner-city Being There, but with a sci-fi twist, more balls-out humor, and a darker sub-plot. Joe Morton (among other parts, the "inventor" of terminator technology in T2) turns in a wonderful performance without saying a word.
This is an odd DVD release, being made on the cheap and looking like a home-brewed bootleg. The quality isn't great and the picture is full-frame, but it was more than worth the $7 I paid for it.