Earth Girls Are Easy *** (1988, Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey) – Classic Movie Review 9241

Director Julien Temple’s 1988 Earth Girls Are Easy stars Geena Davis as scatty Southern California manicurist Valerie Dale, who has a close encounter with three hairy extra-terrestrials who crash-land in her swimming pool, and in particular with kindly Mac (Jeff Goldblum, then Davis’s real-life husband).

The four of them set off to the local hot spots after the furry aliens have visited a beauty parlour to look a bit more human.

The attractive cast, funny one-liners and sight gags, and the first-rate music from Daryl Hall and John Oates, The B-52’s and Depeche Mode, turn director Temple’s comic-strip musical comedy into a cosmic treat.

Also in the cast are Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans, Julie Brown, Michael McKean, Charles Rocket, Larry Linville, Rick Overton, Diane Stilwell, June C Ellis, Felix Montiano, Richard Hurst, Leslie Morris and Lisa Fuller.

Earth Girls Are Easy is written by Julie Brown, Charlie Coffey and Terrence E McNally.

Offbeat box office successes are not easy. It cost $10,000,000 but grossed only $3,916,303 in the US.

The DVD versions remove the Vestron Pictures title, logo and credit.

McKean and Rocket swapped roles.

Davis won an Oscar for The Accidental Tourist (1988) and was nominated for Thelma and Louise (1991). She was on a roll with second husband Jeff Goldblum (1987 – 1990) in the horror remake The Fly (1986). They made three films together: Transylvania 6-5000 (1985), The Fly (1986) and Earth Girls Are Easy (1988). In 1993 she married director Renny Harlin and they set up a production company called The Forge, whose first film was the flop Speechless (1994), followed by the big-budget flop Cutthroat Island (1995),

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