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Title: The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human (1999)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| David Hyde Pierce | ... | Narrator (voice) | |
| Mackenzie Astin | ... | The Male (Billy) | |
| Carmen Electra | ... | The Female (Jenny Smith) | |
| Markus Redmond | ... | The Male's Friend (Jimmy) | |
| Lucy Liu | ... | The Female's Friend (Lydia) | |
| Lisa Rotondi | ... | The Female's Slutty Friend (Lana) | |
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Sharon Wyatt | ... | The Male's Mother |
| Jack Kehler | ... | The Male's Father | |
| Leo Rossi | ... | The Female's Father | |
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Antonette Saftler | ... | The Female's Mother |
| Marc Blucas | ... | The Female's Ex-Boyfriend | |
| Anne Gee Byrd | ... | The Female's Boss | |
| Eric Kushnick | ... | The Female's Brother | |
| Linda Porter | ... | The Wise Old Woman | |
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Tyler Abugov | ... | The Female's Fantasy Son |
An anthropologist from an alien planet provides voice-over commentary for a documentary look at human courtship, mating, and reproduction: "complex, perverse, tragically beautiful: the earthbound human." The commentary gets some of the details comically wrong (explaining the slap on a newborn's back: "they don't like the looks of the child so they beat it"), but gets right the overall idea. We follow Billy and Jenny from their meeting at a club, initial misunderstandings, his losing her phone number, finally connecting, walks on the beach, soulful talks, meeting each other's parents, friends' advice, and the gradual taking of the relationship to new levels. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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What an original concept! I am not aware of any other film in this style and if there were they would have to be something special.
This film is positively brilliant. The basic concept of an alien perspective on human mating habits as being some primitive tribal act is ingenius - because it's true. Remove the elements of modern custom and an act which hasn't changed in over 50,000 years (I'm guessing this number) is all that remains. Simple.
The true charm of this film is in the way the (alien) narrator interprets each phase of the mating ritual. The leads where interesting(rather impressed with Carmen for two reasons - the one just mentioned and the other, well, that's rather obvious) and the other supporting cast were right on the money.
The only part of the film I couldn't determine relevance was the male lead driving past the running track and seeing the 'sperm men'. I have a few ideas on this one but none that really make much sense.
Who cares. A top film nonetheless.