Directed by John Carpenter • 1984 • United States
Starring Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith

Director John Carpenter deftly blends science fiction and romance in this celestial odyssey starring Jeff Bridges as an innocent alien from a distant planet who learns what it means to be a man in love. When his spacecraft is shot down over Wisconsin, Starman (Bridges) arrives at the remote cabin of Jenny Hayden (Karen Allen), a distraught young widow, and clones the form of her dead husband. Explaining that if he isn’t picked up by his mothership in three days he’ll die, the alien convinces Jenny to drive him to Arizona. Along the way—with government agents intent on capturing him in hot pursuit—Starman demonstrates the power of universal love, while Jenny rediscovers her own most-human feelings.