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18 December 1987 (USA)
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Tagline:
Five ordinary people needed a miracle. Then one night, Faye Riley left the window open.
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Apartment block tenants seek the aid of alien mechanical life-forms to save their building from demolition. full summary | full synopsis
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Pepsi Cola
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Baseball Bat
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2 wins
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1 nomination
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Excellent, light hearted science fiction
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Hume Cronyn | ... | Frank Riley, Owner Riley's Cafe |
 | Jessica Tandy | ... | Faye Riley |
| Frank McRae | ... | Harry Noble |
| Elizabeth Peña | ... | Marisa Esteval |
| Michael Carmine | ... | Carlos |
 | Dennis Boutsikaris | ... | Mason Baylor |
 | Tom Aldredge | ... | Sid Hogenson |
| Jane Hoffman | ... | Muriel Hogenson |
| John DiSanti | ... | Gus |
| John Pankow | ... | Kovacs |
| MacIntyre Dixon | ... | DeWitt |
| Michael Greene | ... | Lacey, Real Estate Developer |
| Doris Belack | ... | Mrs. Thompson |
| Wendy Schaal | ... | Pamela |
| José Angel Santana | ... | Goon #1 (as José Santana) |
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106 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Australia:PG |
USA:PG (Certificate #28866) |
Argentina:Atp |
Finland:K-10/7 |
UK:PG |
USA:PG |
West Germany:6 |
Singapore:PG |
Iceland:L
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The building that housed Hume Cronyn's lunch counter was a unique old building that was the only one on the block. Twenty-five years earlier it was used for the Judy Holliday musical Bells Are Ringing (1960) with the block in the same condition.
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Boom mic visible: When Carlos throws Frank Riley out his café and starts smashing it up, Frank gets up from the floor, then runs to the café window to look inside. You can see a boom mic reflected in the window.
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Faye Riley:
Bobby!
Carlos: Hey, Lady, my name's not Bobby!
Faye Riley: Well excuse me! Robert. Um...
Carlos: Shut up!
Mason: Hey!
Carlos: Okay, I saw downstairs. Who's been cleaning up after me?
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Carlos: Hey, Lady, my name's not Bobby!
Faye Riley: Well excuse me! Robert. Um...
Carlos: Shut up!
Mason: Hey!
Carlos: Okay, I saw downstairs. Who's been cleaning up after me?
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Featured in "Muppet Babies: Muppets Not Included (#5.1)" (1988)
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This film does, as suggested, bear semlence to Cocoon, however it contains a far richer storyline and a generally superior level of acting. This film while not specifically being a comedy tells a relativly amusing story of a group of residents of an old building, targeted for demolition, visited by alien 'devices' (the nature of which remain undisclosed throughout), who help them by fixing everything in their path in exchange for some power and spare parts. As for the level of comedy, well it depends on your sense of humour, I certainly found the funny bits, well, funny, and not in the usual 'in your face' american comedy style.