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John Carpenter's Starman (1984; see also 1984 in film) is a science fiction film directed by John Carpenter which tells the story of an alien from another planet (Jeff Bridges) who has come to earth in response to the invitation found on the gold phonograph record in the Voyager space probes.

The movie was written by Bruce A. Evans, Raynold Gideon, and Dean Riesner (uncredited). Bridges was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. The film inspired a short-lived, 1986 television series of the same name which starred Robert Hays and Christopher Daniel Barnes.

Plot summary

Upon arriving in earth's atmosphere, the Starman's ship is attacked by military aircraft, forcing it to crash-land. The Starman, requiring a human form in order to get assistance, searches the local countryside and finds the cabin of a young woman named Jenny Hayden (Karen Allen). After reminiscing about her dead husband by watching old movies and looking through photo albums, Hayden has fallen asleep from drinking too much in an attempt to drown her sorrows. The visitor finds a lock of her husband's hair in a photo album and samples the DNA from the hair, replicating it to a fully adult, cloned body within minutes in which he takes residence. The Starman then convinces Hayden to drive him from Wisconsin to Meteor Crater in Arizona, where his mother ship will be picking him up. Hayden is both terrified and enthralled by this seeming return of her dead husband, and so she agrees to help the Starman get to Arizona, although at first the fear seems to outweigh the interest.

Along the way, the couple is pursued by the Army, who detected the crash. The Army contingent is led by gung-ho NSA Chief Fox (Richard Jaeckel), who is reluctantly assisted by a less military-oriented scientist named Shermin (Charles Martin Smith).

Over the course of the journey, the Starman learns about humanity (and being human) through direct experience and from some explanations by Hayden, who in turn learns more about him when his communication skills improve, finding that he is a tender, sincere, loving being. By the end of the journey, when the Starman is retrieved by his fellow extraterrestrials, he has saved Hayden's life, they have fallen in love, and she has become pregnant by him.

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