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Lanny Cotler (written by)
Release Date:
24 July 1980 (USA)
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Patrick Foley has been on the move all his live. Tired of drifting, he wants to spend his last days in an isolated Australian valley where he grew up...
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A deeply spiritual and heart-touching film
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | William Holden | ... | Patrick Foley |
 | Rick Schroder | ... | Shawn Daley (as Ricky Schroder) |
| Jack Thompson | ... | Ross Daley |
| Olivia Hamnett | ... | Bettina Daley |
| Alwyn Kurts | ... | Christian Neilson |
| Pat Evison | ... | Meg Neilson |
| Redmond Phillips | ... | Bobby Burns |
| Ray Barrett | ... | Parnell |
 | Tony Barry | ... | Red |
| Allan Penney | ... | Harlan |
| Willie Fennell | ... | R.C |
| Walter Pym | ... | Uncle |
| Cul Cullen | ... | Dawson |
| Dawn Schroder | ... | Dalton |
| Maggie Blinco | ... | Jessica |
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97 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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[first lines]
Australian Customs Agent: Next please. Now what's the purpose of your visit?
Patrick Foley: Uh - passing through.
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Australian Customs Agent: Next please. Now what's the purpose of your visit?
Patrick Foley: Uh - passing through.
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He'll Never Fill My Shoes
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I'm rarely moved to comment on a movie, but the Earthling is one of my favorites. I like thought-provoking and heart-touching movies, this film aims right at my emotional core and gets me in the breadbasket.
It's not a family film in the Disney sense, but it's a true family film in the spiritual sense. Sometimes the happy ending teaches that life is hard, suffering has a cause and an end, and within us lies the answer to the cessation of suffering: We can endure and find happiness, so long as we remember to find love.
Holden's performance was right-on, playing the embittered but compassionate mentor to Shroeder's traumatized child. The cinematography was outstanding, the Australian landscape was full of color and the story line quite refreshing.