The Man Who Fell To Earth - The Movie on DVD, Cast List, Amazon Review

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booksmusicfilmstv.com Comments on The Man Who Fell To Earth
David Bowie is impressive as a disorientated alien in his first major film lead. His character, Thomas Newton, has a disarming, other worldly air about him, and it's a film that is pretty disturbing, but it has its endearing moments, too. - Paul Rance.

The Man Who Fell To Earth Cast List

David Bowie - Thomas Jerome Newton
Buck Henry - Oliver Farnsworth
Rip Torn - Nathan Bryce
Candy Clark - Mary-Lou

Amazon.co.uk The Man Who Fell To Earth Review
While other films directed by Nicolas Roeg have attained similar cult status (including Walkabout and Don't Look Now), none has been as hotly debated as this languid but oddly fascinating adaptation of the science fiction novel by Walter Tevis. In The Man Who Fell to Earth, David Bowie plays the alien of the title, who arrives on Earth with hopes of finding a way to save his own planet from turning into an arid wasteland. He funds this effort by capitalising on several highly lucrative inventions, and in so doing becomes the powerful leader of an international corporate conglomerate. But his success has negative consequences as well--his contact with Earth has a disintegrating effect that sends him into a tailspin of disorientation and metaphysical despair. The sexual attention of a cheerful young woman (Candy Clark) doesn't do much to change his outlook, and his introduction to liquor proves even more devastating, until, finally, it looks as though his visit to Earth may be a permanent one. The Man Who Fell to Earth is definitely not for every taste--it's a highly contemplative, primarily visual experience that Roeg directs as an abstract treatise on (among other things) the alienating effects of an over-commercialised society. Stimulating and hypnotic or frightfully dull, depending on your receptivity to its loosely knit ideas, it's at least in part about not belonging, about being disconnected from the world--about being a stranger in a strange land when there's really no place like home. --Jeff Shannon. --This text refers to the VHS edition.

The Man Who Fell To Earth Synopsis
An alien crash lands on Earth whilst on a water collecting mission...

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