Product Details

• Actors: Ullie Birve, Syd Brisbane, Alethea McGrath, Chloe Ferguson, Phoebe Ferguson
• Directors: Rolf de Heer
• Writers: Rolf de Heer
• Producers: Rolf de Heer, Domenico Procacci, Giuseppe Pedersoli, Sharon Jackson
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Miramax
• VHS Release Date: March 13, 2001
• Run Time: 92 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305958130
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #327,780 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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The Australian outback has seldom looked so beautiful as it does in this pretentious excuse to cram environmental issues down our throats. Not that there's anything wrong with being green--far from it. It's just that the film's allegorical and pedantic style is off-putting, and film narrative doesn't easily support didactic storytelling without insulting the audience's intelligence. It seems that an alien known simply as "She" (Ullie Birve) has arrived on Earth, the armpit of the universe, due to some error on the part of her compadres. "She" ends up in the Australian outback where "She" meets "The Man" (Syd Brisbane), a gregarious every-Aussie and Earth's representative to superior aliens. If only there had been a vote. "She" has the ability to speed up and slow down time and then jaunt about the planet, and the two of them go mind-tripping around the globe as an excuse to show how awful we humans are, with our pollution and the plight of frogs. While their relationship flowers into something as beautiful as a friendship card, "The Man" (we learn from the narration) becomes the emissary of "She" and presumably saves the world. Once again, it takes these superior aliens to show us the way. Gag me with a billabong. --Jim Gay

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Time, Place, Myth and they're right here on Earth!, September 20, 2000

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Lex King (Fair Oaks, California USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Alien Visitor [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I believe that [some] miss the point and yet, simultaneously proves the point of Alien Visitor when they state that "there isn't much going on here". While it is true that we see no sleek space ships, ray guns, or interstellar battles, the film is rich in its storytelling and a modern mythology that makes historians and anthropologists (yes, guilty as charged) smack their lips. The principals have no names other the "She" and "the Wandering Man" but they fill the roles of ancient goddess and true believer which populates the creation and renewal stories, originally in an oral tradition but later written, which have survived from countless ancient civilizations, whether from the Near East, Africa, Aboriginal Australia or Native North America. Myth transcends time and the place is always the same: Earth! Again, Sci-fi, Action film fans may fall asleep in their popcorn, but for those who crave a good story which makes you think about where you come from, are now, and may soon be,it is a true diamond in the rough.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love it, October 4, 2000

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"heikodittmer" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Alien Visitor [VHS] (VHS Tape)

A great movie and a wonderful lovestory. Only for sensitive people and dreamer !

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Alien Visitor, January 8, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Alien Visitor (DVD)

This is a thoughtful film, that, in addition to the communication between the man and the woman, uses the beautiful Australian outback to emphasize the message. Yes, it has a strong environmental message, and at the end, an excellent speech is given about man's coming together to fight wars to right perceived wrongs, but as we continue to despoil the earth....we have yet to come together to "fight the war" to right the wrong that is being done to our own habitat: the earth. The photography is great. Makes one want to go to Australia.