The Brother from Another Planet
1984 film by John Sayles / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Brother from Another Planet is a 1984 low-budget American science fiction film, written and directed by John Sayles.
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The Brother from Another Planet | |
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Directed by | John Sayles |
Written by | John Sayles |
Produced by | Peggy Rajski Maggie Renzi |
Starring | Joe Morton Darryl Edwards Steve James Bill Cobbs David Strathairn |
Cinematography | Ernest R. Dickerson |
Edited by | John Sayles |
Music by | Mason Daring John Sayles Denzil Botus |
Distributed by | Cinecom Pictures |
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Running time | 108 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $350,000[2] |
Box office | over $4 million[2] |
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The film, starring Joe Morton as an escaped extraterrestrial slave trying to find a new life on Earth, is in the public domain.[3][4] Morton's performance as The Brother was acclaimed, as he had no lines of dialogue and had to communicate through facial expressions and body language alone.