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Carnivorous aliens arrive unannounced at a Kansas family farm; two intergalactic bounty hunters soon follow, determined to blow them off the planet.
1986 · Directed by Stephen Herek · 86 min · Comedy · Horror · Science Fiction · 17 frames
Tagline
The battle began in another galaxy. It's about to end in the Brown's backyard.
Crew
- Screenplay: Stephen Herek, Domonic Muir
- Cinematography: Tim Suhrstedt
- Edited by: Larry Bock
- Music: David Newman
- Production design: Gregg Fonseca
- Produced by: Rupert Harvey
Cast
- Dee Wallace as Helen Brown
- M. Emmet Walsh as Harv
- Billy Green Bush as Jay Brown
- Scott Grimes as Brad Brown
- Nadine Van der Velde as April Brown
- Don Keith Opper as Charlie McFadden
- Lin Shaye as Sally
- Billy Zane as Steve Elliot
- Ethan Phillips as Jeff Barnes
- Terrence Mann as Johnny Steele
Production
- Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: New Line Cinema, Smart Egg Pictures, Sho Films
- Budget: $2,000,000
- Box office: $13,167,232
- Themes: spacecraft, small town, sheriff, bounty hunter, sibling relationship, cat, barn, toilet, kansas, usa, alien
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