movie poster for THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH

Flicks ID

7110

Cert

18

Running time

133 mins

Country

Format

VHW

THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (1976)

NICOLAS ROEG

Plot

A truly mesmerising adaptation of Walter Tevis's sci-fi tale, and, whatever your opinion of David Bowie's acting skills, few could deny that nobody, but nobody, could fill this role so flawlessly. Newton is an alien, sent to Earth on a mission to save his own race, whose knowledge of the world is derived solely from monitoring TV broadcasts. Newton begins an all-too-obviously doomed romance with a besotted Candy Clark, the archetypal all-American girl, but the love affair turns sour as Newton's extraterrestrial financial genius brings him closer to world domination and a return to loved ones in another universe.