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The brother from another planet /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 1004605 | MGM Home EntertainmentLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English, Spanish Series: MGM DVDPublisher: Santa Monica, Calif. : MGM Home Entertainment, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 videodisc (approximately 110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 9780792858102
  • 0792858107
Uniform titles:
  • Brother from another planet (Motion picture : 1984)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .B84 2003
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Ernest R. Dickerson ; production designer, Nora Chavooshian ; music, Mason Daring.
Cast: Joe Morton (The Brother), Maggie Renzi (Noreen), Ren Woods (Bernice), Steve James (Odell), Leonard Jackson (Smokey), Bill Cobbs (Walter), Tom Wright (Sam), John Sayles (Man In Black), David Strathairn (Man In Black), Fisher Stevens (Card trickster).Summary: "Sayles takes a fresh look at our society through the eyes of a black extraterrestrial who crash-lands on Earth--in Harlem--and is taken in by the regulars of a local bar. The alien changes everyone he meets on his original and eye-opening journey through the streets of urban America. But can his message of brotherly love resonate with the intergalactic bounty hunters trying to track him down?"--Container.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD-03642 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050314063

Originally released as a motion picture in 1984.

""The Brother from Another Planet" (1984) has been preserved by Anarchists' Convention in collaboration with UCLA Film and Television Archive"--Opening frames.

Special features: audio commentary by John Sayles, featurette with John Sayles and Maggie Renzi, Casa de los Babys trailer.

MPAA rating: R; for language, some drug content and brief nudity.

DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.85:1) presentation enhanced for widescreen 16:9 televisions ; Dolby digital mono.; NTSC.

Dialogue in English with optional subtitles in English or Spanish.

Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.

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