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What planet are you from?

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When it comes to connecting with women, men might as well be from another planet but Harold (Garry Shandling) has a good excuse he really is from another planet.

From Oscar-winning director Mike Nichols comes the cosmic battle of the sexes What planet are you from?, a hilariously offbeat, down and dirty comedy about men, women and the universe in between.

The year is 2999. Four solar systems and three generations away from Earth lies a highly evolved world populated by what appears to be male life forms. When one of them, Harold, is sent to Earth on a mission to impregnate a woman and have a child, he quickly learns that travelling halfway across the universe was the easy part.

Upon his arrival to Earth, Harold befriends Perry Gordon (Greg Kinnear), a horny, morally-challenged specimen of the human male, and together they scope Phoenix for women. To Harold, however, female Earthlings prove to be an immensely diverse and complicated species. On the prowl for the ideal woman with whom he can mate, the alien encounters a wide spectrum of potential candidates: a charming, almost frigid stewardess (Judy Greer), a topless waitress (Anastasia Sakelaris), Perry's sexually aggressive wife, Helen (Linda Fiorentino), and finally, Susan (Annette Bening), a recovering alcoholic who's about to embark on a new life.

As Harold tries his inept hand at dating, he falls victim to the courting and mating anxieties that plague all Earthlings. Neither the leader of his planet nor an Earth simulator could have prepared him for the challenges he would face in his pursuit of a consenting female human especially Roland Jones (John Goodman), a highly strung FAA agent who's hot on Harold's tail.

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Studios and distributors:

Sony Pictures Releasing

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Special Agent Matti

Theatrical report

What Hollywood studio do you work for?

Based on the rhetorical question and taking it literally as well as metaphorically, What planet are you from? tries to mate the "geek gets laid" premise with the "alien experiences Earth" script. Tries, but the offspring is a mule (imagine the illegitimate love child of American pie and My favourite Martian). An older, tireder, more cynical mule in need of viagra.

Garry, meanwhile, looks like he's on valium. Talk about someone who doesn't want to be in the film. Or maybe that's the way he always performs.

*Shudders*

Greg meanders through the whole thing like he's just doing it for the money while John gives exactly the same performance he gave in Roseanne and almost every other thing he's done. Linda and Annette put some bite into their performances, but there's only so far you can go with a script like this.

You'll get a few good laughs but you don't need to rush out and see What planet are you from? just yet. Wait until you're in need of one more movie to round out the five weeklies for the price of three.

Media intelligence (DVD)

Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1
Disc: Single side, dual layer
Picture: Widescreen (16:9 enhanced)
Languages: English, German
Subtitles: English, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Icelandic, Hindi, Hebrew, Dutch, Bulgarian, German, Turkish, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Greek, Norwegian, Arabic
Isolated soundtrack
Behind-the-scenes featurette
Talent profiles
Movie trailer
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