Doin' Time on Planet Earth (1988) on Netflix
Ryan Richmond, an outcast in Sunnyvale, wants to go to college in Saudi Arabia. The singer he asks to his brother's wedding refuses; a computer dating service says he is an alien.
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Plot summary
Ryan Richmond's family owns the Holiday Inn in Sunnyvale, Arizona, where he lives as an outcast at school and at home. His intelligence wins him a chance to study abroad, but his parents are absorbed in the wedding of his older brother Jeff to a senator's daughter. Ryan asks Lisa Winston, who sings in the hotel lounge, to accompany him, and she refuses. He turns to a computer dating service whose questions grow stranger and stranger, and it tells him he is an alien. Charles and Virginia then seek him out and claim that they are aliens as well, that they built the service to find others like them, and that Ryan is their leader.
Cast
- Nicholas Strouseas Ryan Richmond
- Isabelle Walkeras Jenny Camalier
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Doin' Time on Planet Earth (1988)
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- Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys wrote and recorded a theme song for Doin' Time on Planet Earth that the film never used; he later reworked it as the B-side "Being With the One You Love".
- For one of the film's final scenes, Reel EFX, Inc. built a rotating turntable weighing 45,000 pounds and measuring over 50 feet across; it cost about $100,000 and took four weeks to build.
