Synopsis
Trying to rescue her home planet from destruction, a gorgeous extraterrestrial named Celeste arrives on Earth and begins her scientific research. She woos quirky scientist Dr. Steve Mills, a widower with a young daughter. Before long, Celeste finds herself in love with Steve and her new life on Earth, where she experiences true intimacy for the first time. But when she loses sight of her mission, she begins to question where she belongs.
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Cast
- Dan AykroydSteven Mills
- Kim BasingerCeleste Martin
- Jon LovitzRon Mills
- Alyson HanniganJessie Mills
- Joseph MaherLucas Budlong
- Seth GreenFred Glass
- Ann PrentissThe Voice of the Bag (voice)
- Wesley MannGrady
- Tony JayCouncil Chief
- Peter BromilowSecond in Command
Recommendations
- 80
Los Angeles Times
My Stepmother Is an Alien is solid, wide-appeal holiday fare. It makes the best use of Aykroyd’s warmth and proven talents in quite some time, and it does even more for Basinger, showing that she can be as funny and smart as she is sexy. - 63
Chicago Reader
Directed by Richard Benjamin, this is an inordinately silly comedy that manages to be pretty likable if one can get past some of its harebrained premises. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
My Stepmother Is an Alien is a great idea for a movie, but it seems to have stalled at the idea stage. - 50
The New York Times
Unlike the screenwriters, who often cross the thin line between wit and silliness as they outline Celeste's neo-I Love Lucy-isms, Miss Basinger reveals unfailingly sound instincts for comedy. - 50
Time Out
The film offers several entertaining sequences, but Splash it ain't, for while that film took a similar scenario and beautifully conveyed romantic notions of innocence, this is marred by cruel and juvenile gags. - 50
Boston Globe
It falls far short of the lighthandedness, whimsy and feeling it needs to override its slightness. You keep wanting to like it, to match the good will coming out of the actors, but the writing keeps shoving its fabricated nothingness in your face. [09 Dec 1988, p.36] - 50
Chicago Tribune
As a filmmaker, Benjamin is capable of the occasional light, graceful touch, but the overall view eludes him; just as he was unable to bring out the sly blend of satire and psychological drama in Bo Goldman's script for Little Nikita, he's unable to find any harmony of tone in this scattered, cacophonous material. [09 Dec 1988, p.B] - 40
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Even Dan Aykroyd and Kim Basinger together, acting their hearts out, can't move this turgid script to liftoff velocity. [15 Dec 1988]
