At the Chazen: Cinematic Messages From Our PlanetStarman | USA | 1984 | 35mm | 115 min. Director: John Carpenter

Cast: Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith
Responding to the real-life Voyager I probe’s message of peace, an extraterrestrial visitor spectacularly crashes its own spacecraft just outside of Madison, WI and takes on the form of a recently deceased earthling (Bridges, in an Oscar-nominated performance). The dead man’s grieving widow (Allen) reluctantly accompanies the gentle-but-awkward alien on a road trip to the Southwest, all the while dodging dangerous government officials.