My Alien Stepmother

My Stepmother Is an Alien is a failed attempt to mix many of the film genres associated with the ‘alien’ idea into a sprightly romp. Dan Aykroyd, as a rumpled, overweight, widower scientist, foils one of his own experiments using lightning and a high-powered satellite dish which results in a signal reaching beyond our galaxy to a planet in peril. Soon afterwards, a flying saucer lands on a Southern California beach and two aliens alight.

They come in the form of quintessential American beauty Kim Basinger in a slinky red sheath dress with an alien-buddy-mentor (the snake, voice courtesy of Ann Prentiss) hiding in her purse. Their mission is to get Aykroyd to repeat his experiment, which will save their planet. It is the lengths to which Basinger is expected to go wending her way into Aykroyd’s otherwise nerdy suburban lifestyle that is supposed to levitate this fish-out-of-water story to comedic heights.

Hey, love your umbrella.

My Stepmother Is An Alien. 1988 108 minutes. Add to Wishlist. $3.99 Rent HD. $12.99 Buy HD. Dan Aykroyd stars as widowed, eccentric physicist Steven Mills, who in his drive to make contact with extraterrestrial life harnesses the power of lightning and sends an energy beam to another galaxy. The response is a visit to Earth by a.

-Dr. Mills. Dr. Budlong.

-Morosini, Carvalho, come with me.

If he thinks he's going to ruin any more

equipment he's underestimated the facility.

-He thinks he's cute, doesn't he?

-Yes, but I was mother's favourite.

Dr. Mills.

-This is the last time I'll warn you.

-I won't let the Klystron go above 300.

That's what you said last time it rained,

but you turned it to 350.

Do you know what it costs

to repair a Klystron tube?

I know, Dr. Budlong. I'm very sorry,

but believe me it won't happen again.

You have my word on that, and I promise.

Don't worry. He can't go blowing up

your Klyman tube or whatever it is.

We've got a date tonight,

happy hour at Mingles.

Mingles. You know what that means?

What?

It meanscomplimentary hors d'oeuvres.

A veritable who's who

of secretaries and beauticians.

It means 20th century music.

You look like a sensible man.

You believe there's life on other planets?

-I don't believe there's life in this room.

-Exactly.

Your brotherwants to send a radar signal

to a point in space so far away..

..it'd take 92 years to get there

and 92 years to get back.

Ninety-two years? Steve, we're late now.

Indeed. There isn't anything

out there, Dr. Mills.

We're it.

Now don't you go above 300

or I'm revoking your funding.

Now that Dr. Strangelove is gone, let's go.

Mingles is at high party.

I can't tonight, Ron.

It's raining.

Tonight I've got another destination

in mind. I wanna go right there.

Clouds of Magellan. It sounds like

some kind of woman's underwear.

No, the Clouds of Magellan is

the name of our neighbouring galaxy.

You want to send a radar signal

to the next galaxy?

You can't get radar to the next galaxy.

You'd have to travelfaster than

the speed of light. No one can do that.

Don't watch that, it won't change.

This is the one to watch.

I like the Clouds of Magellan.

We can't get there, Ron.

But if we increase the power of

the Klystron, with lightning..

..we may get a signalstrong enough

to get out of the solar system.

That's the theory, anyway.

Right. Thanks.

Tell me something I don't know.

Can't this wait? Secretaries are

like animals when it comes to free food.

The reflectors line up for 10 days

only once every 19 months.

Now, with all this rain

and lightning, it's perfect.

Perfect for men like us.

Christ! Steve, when was the last time

you went out with a woman?

Close combat invasion normandy. January of '86. No. March of '86.

I took Dr. Elizabeth Conway

to see the Halley's Comet retrospective.

Superb.

-You see it?

-Sure, a couple of times.

How can we be brothers?

We don't have a single gene in common.

-Not above 300 kilowatts.

-Hi.

Okay. Thank you. Have fun.

We have no time to sweep frequencies.

We'll lower it belowthree centimetres.

But below?

It's raining out here. I'm getting wet!

This jacket is a Ralph Lauren!

And it's smelly.

Great, just great.

I'm wet and smelly.

They're gonna jump all over me.

Do you guys smell fish?

It's me!

-Help me rotate the dish.

-Where's this lightningsupposed to strike?

Right here.

Here?

That almost hit my shoe.

Excuse me.

All the way up.

I hate this. What the hell is this thing?

Klystron tube. Potential of 400 megawatts,

at an oscillation of 60 gigahertz.

Great. Why don't we take this to Mingles?

Stupid piece of garbage.

Now all we gotta do

is harness the lightning.

Yes, it's good. Let's try for lightning.

-Is this important?

-Only if it works.

Okay, deep breath. Set your retractors.

How long is this gonna take?

Single women have shortattention spans.

Prepare to initiate the system.