Washington Psychotronic Film Society: The Brother from Another Planet

An extraterrestrial undocumented immigrant/illegal alien/fugitive slave on the run from ICE/men-in-black/slave catchers November 16, Washington Psychotronic Film Society presents illegal alien THE BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET (1984) upstairs at Stoney’s on P (1433 P St NW, Washington, DC), trailer: https://youtu.be/OThO4YvYEU4 WPFS phones home • 6:30pm: Short Films & Videos • 7pm: THE BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET (1984, USA, 108m) Written and directed by JOHN SAYLES (Lone Star, Eight Men Out, Matewan, The Secret of Roan Inish) After crash-landing in Harlem, a mute extraterrestrial with a dark complexion and miraculous healing hands meets the locals, gets a job fixing shit, and finds life on Earth isn’t all that fair. All the while evading a pair of melanistically-challenged intergalactic bounty hunters . Part sci-fi comedy, part social satire , think E.T. with street smarts and considerably less Spielbergian sentimentality. poster: https://i.imgur.com/EQZ1SU1.jpg large poster: https://i.imgur.com/QwUdFk6.jpg No Cover. Mature Subject Matter for Immature Adults (Ages 18+). https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-brother-from-another-planet-1984 https://moriareviews.com/sciencefiction/brother-from-another-planet-1984.htm https://outlawvern.com/2024/12/30/the-brother-from-another-planet/ https://hyperrealfilm.club/reviews/the-brother-from-another-planet https://eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2020/07/28/the-brother-from-another-planet-1984/ https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheBrotherFromAnotherPlanet https://wpfs.org/ https://www.facebook.com/wpfs.org https://www.instagram.com/washingtonpsychotronic/ https://bsky.app/profile/wpfs.bsky.social