![]() ![]() Steven figures out how to recreate the radio wave and saves Celeste's planet. He further ingratiates her to human society by showing her how to eat real food. Steven accepts that Celeste is indeed an alien and that she has fallen in love with him and sees Jessie as her own daughter. After Jessie argues with Steven, she runs away and is nearly hit by a car but is saved by Celeste, revealing her powers. That said, she begins to question her decisions when Jessie says it will devastate her father for whom Celeste has now developed feelings. When Jessie finally confronts her about being an extraterrestrial, Celeste admits her home world has no emotion and that she plans to depart once she gets Steven to recreate the radio signal and send it (which she says will reverse the gravity problems on her world). Ron also has his doubts about Celeste and tries to dissuade Steven from marrying her on the idea she is an illegal immigrant or planning economic espionage, but then admits he is just jealous his brother has found his dream girl, whereas he will never find a girl like Princess Stéphanie of Monaco.Ĭeleste begins enjoying life as a human as she encounters new experiences such as sneezing and love. When Celeste tells him that she must leave in 24 hours, he impulsively proposes and she accepts. She unsuccessfully tries to convince her smitten father that something is unusual about Celeste. Jessie, Steven's 13-year-old daughter, is at first happy that her father has found someone (her mother having died five years previously) but becomes suspicious when she observes Celeste eating the acid out of batteries and pulling eggs out of boiling hot water with her bare hands. She goes home with Steven and spends the night (after Bag teaches her what sex is, which she greatly enjoys). Celeste crashes a party hosted by Steven's brother, Ron, and immediately draws attention to herself by making outdated references to TV shows and political slogans under the mistaken belief that they are current (information that had actually taken 92 years to get from Earth to her home world).Ĭeleste's inexperience almost results in her exposing herself as alien as she struggles with simple tasks such as cooking and trying to kiss for the first time. Bag is able to create any object, such as diamonds and designer dresses, almost instantaneously. She is aided by a device called Bag: an alien tentacle with a single eye and a mind of its own disguised as a designer purse. Celeste is sent to investigate who could have done it and how it was done, believing it was an attack. After he sends a radio wave out of the galaxy, it hits a planet (Cosine N to the 8th), causing a disruption of gravity on the planet. ![]() Steven Mills is a widowed scientist working on different ways to send radio waves into deep space. ![]() Basinger and costar Lovitz received generally favorable reviews for their comedic performances, but in a New York Times review, Aykroyd was singled out for criticism for his performance as a romantic lead. The film also received negative reviews from critics, with most of the responses panning the film's humor and screenplay. ![]() My Stepmother Is an Alien was a box-office bomb, grossing only $13.8 million against a $19 million budget. The film was unproduced for four years until Weintraub Entertainment Group put it into production in 1988. When Paramount optioned the story, they suggested that it would be more believable as a comedy. Stone had originally pitched the film to Paramount Pictures as a drama that would serve as an allegory for child abuse. The screenplay was written by Herschel Weingrod, Timothy Harris, and Jonathan Reynolds, based on an earlier script by Jericho Stone. The film was the film debut of Juliette Lewis. The film follows the story of Celeste, an extraterrestrial woman who is sent on a secret mission to Earth, after her home planet's gravity is mistakenly disrupted by Steven Mills, a widowed scientist raising his daughter Jessie as a single father. It stars Dan Aykroyd, Kim Basinger, Jon Lovitz, and Alyson Hannigan. My Stepmother Is an Alien is a 1988 American science fiction comedy film directed by Richard Benjamin. ![]()
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