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The Man Who Fell to Earth is a 1976 British science fantasy drama film [4] directed by Nicolas Roeg and adapted by Paul Mayersberg. [5] Based on Walter Tevis's 1963 novel of the same name, the film follows an extraterrestrial named Thomas Jerome Newton (David Bowie) who crash-lands on Earth seeking a way to ship water to his planet, which is suffering from a severe drought, but finds himself ...
The Man Who Fell to Earth: Directed by Nicolas Roeg. With David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark, Buck Henry. An alien must pose as a human to save his dying planet, but a woman and greed of other men create complications.
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- Drama, Sci-Fi
- Nicolas Roeg
- 1976-04-08
Oct 8, 2016 · amzn.to. The Man Who Fell To Earth held up a mirror, of art reflecting life and vice versa, to Bowie’s paranoid, lonely, fractured persona — and forty years on, as StudioCanal release their 4K ...
Credits. The Man Who Fell to Earth is a daring exploration of science fiction as an art form. The story of an alien on an elaborate rescue mission provides the launching pad for Nicolas Roeg’s visual tour de force, a formally adventurous examination of alienation in contemporary life. Rock legend David Bowie, in his acting debut, completely ...
- Thomas Jerome Newton
Synopsis. A humanoid space alien (David Bowie) plummets to planet Earth, landing in a lake in New Mexico. He drinks the water from the lake and thinks about his barren planet, where his wife and two children are dying of thirst. Frequent flashbacks by the alien show of his dying planet. Using the name Thomas Jerome Newton, the alien travels to ...
Dec 1, 2009. Box Office (Gross USA) $81.8K. Runtime. 1h 58m. Most Popular at Home Now. Thomas Jerome Newton (David Bowie) is an alien who has come to Earth in search of water to save his home ...
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Nov 26, 2018 · The screenplay for The Man Who Fell to Earth was written by Paul Mayersberg, based on Walter Tevis’ 1963 novel, which the interviews in the special features of the Blu-ray point out is a very ...