Nicholas Roeg's 1976 Sci-Fi film stars, David Bowie as Thomas Jerome Newton, an alien that comes to Earth in search of water for his dying planet. He uses his technology to amass a fortune on earth that will allow him to create a means of returning to his home. This is not a big special effects movie, coming 8 years after Kubrick's 2001 and preceeding Star Wars by a year, it is quite old school in much of it's visions of another planet. For the sake of the movie we are asked to believe that assimilation of an alien into our culture would be pretty simple. However when his ALIEN STATUS becomes known, his plans are thwarted and he is subjected to all manner of testing. As a whole this was a pretty interesting movie as long as you surrender to the suspension of disbelief. I found this one on the Independent Film Channel.
Water Nymph
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