Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)

A Southern California girl befriends three furry aliens after their spaceship lands in her swimming pool.

Director:

Julien Temple

Writers:

Julie Brown, Charlie Coffey

Stars:

Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey

3 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Geena Davis	...	Valerie
Jeff Goldblum	...	Mac
Jim Carrey	...	Wiploc
Damon Wayans	...	Zeebo
Julie Brown	...	Candy Pink
Michael McKean	...	Woody
Charles Rocket	...	Ted
Larry Linville	...	Dr. Bob
Rick Overton	...	Dr. Rick
Diane Stilwell	...	Robin
Juney Ellis	...	Mrs. Merkin (as June C. Ellis)
Felix Montano	...	Ramon
Rick Hurst	...	Joe the Cop (as Richard Hurst)
Leslie Morris	...	Mike the Cop
Lisa Fuller	...	Kikki

Storyline

Three furry (and funny) aliens travel around the universe in a spaceship and receive a broadcast showing human females. They are fascinated by these shapely creatures and discover that the broadcast came from Southern California on Earth. Meanwhile, Valley girl Valerie Gail feels her cold fiancé Dr. Ted Gallagher is slipping away and decides to seduce him. Instead, she catches him cheating on her with a nurse, throws him out, smashes his things and refuses to see him again. The aliens' spaceship crash lands in Valerie's swimming pool - putting a decided damper on her future wedding plans in Las Vegas. She brings them into her home; and the aliens prove to be quick learners and absorb American popular culture and language through television.

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Plot Keywords:

alien contact | spacecraft | bare chested male | reference to tina turner | disco | 

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Taglines:

An out-of-this-world, down-to-earth comedy adventure.

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Genres:

Comedy | Musical | Romance | Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

PG

Did You Know?

Trivia

At the start of the millennium, there were several staged readings for a Broadway musical adaptation. Julie Brown reprised her role of Candy, with a largely-unknown Kristin Chenoweth taking the role of Valerie, Marc Kudisch as Ted, Hunter Foster as Mac and Deven May as Wiploc. The Zeebo and Woody characters were omitted from the stage version.

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Goofs

When Demone loses the dance competition against Zeebo, he is kneeling with his head on top of the bars in the cage he's in. In the close-up shot, his head is under and sticking through the bars.

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Quotes

Valerie: Candy, whatever you do, don't freak out.
Candy: Valerie!
Valerie: I mean it, don't freak out. Promise me you will not freak out.
Candy: Stop it! You are freaking me out!

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Alternate Versions

On all DVD versions the Vestron Pictures title, logo and credit have been removed and just start off the film with "A Kestrel Films Production" then continues on with the opening.

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Connections

Referenced in Don't Talk to Irene (2017)

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Soundtracks

Cause I'm a Blond
Written by Julie Brown, Charlie Coffey and Dennis Poore
Produced by Terrence E. McNally and Danny Larsen
Performed by Julie Brown

User Reviews

Zany pop musical

A musical romantic comedy about alien invaders? Need I say more? Three extraterrestrials visit Earth in their flying saucer to check out chicks. While ogling a sunbathing beautician, they get so excited they crash the spaceship in her backyard pool. Valerie the beautician understands the critical importance of humanity's first contact with an alien intelligence, so she fixes them up with haircuts and cool clothes, and takes them out for a night on the town. Their efforts to get laid are punctuated by the humorous pop songs of Julie Brown (of "I Like Them Big and Stupid" fame).

One look at the cast, and you know this is going to be good comedy. Jeff Goldblum was a big star when this film was made, but Jim Carey and Damon Wayans steal the show as hormone-stoked space guidos (they were both unknowns at the time). Julie Brown's songs are still cute. She plays a great ditsy Valley Girl to Gena Davis' "straight man" act.

An underrated film. Much funnier than average.

Details

Country:

UK France USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

12 May 1989 (USA)

Also Known As:

Earth Girls Are Easy

Filming Locations:

19625 Bryant Street Northridge, Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$10,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$892,742, 14 May 1989

Gross USA:

$3,916,303

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$3,916,303

Company Credits

Production Co:

De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG), Earth Girls, Kestrel Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

100 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1