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...skiers, a heavy snowfall is a happy occasion, a piece of good meteorological fortune falling from the sky in soft crystals. Certainly, resort operators across the Alps must have felt lucky when as much as 20 ft. of snow piled up during the past six weeks in winter playgrounds like Chamonix, Klosters and Kitzbuhel. And European travel agents were busily feeding thousands of tourists into the mountains...
...fiasco begins as Tim O'Hara (Jeff Daniels) is driving home in his beat-up, smoking car after sabotaging his news reporting career by unintentionally flirting with the boss's daughter (Elizabeth Hurley). Suddenly, a flash of light illuminates the sky, and he slams on the brakes. A spacecraft has landed on the nearby Enter Martian--a red, three-eyed creature who sees O'Hara recovering from the shock and, realizing he has landed on planet earth, chews on a piece of blue gum enabling him to transform into Christopher Lloyd. Grace, the spoiled boss's daughter whose glossy lipstick...
Hands thrust deeply into our pockets, we silently traversed a dilapidated alley as the sky darkened and ware-houses loomed ominously on either side. It began to drizzle, and I realized I had been shivering since we crossed the Fort Point Channel. The silence bore down on me, and I glanced at my younger brother. I coughed, exhaling a steamy breath, and noticed that the streetlights made a jagged series of shadows on the adjacent building as we walked. I had the strange feeling that we were in, well, an underground film...
...arrive in San Francisco and notice a big difference in the weather. There is a large yellow object in the sky that hurts when you look...
...think I'm giving too much away to note that one, Homer makes good; and two, one of the film's final images is of Dad's arm giving Homer's shoulder a paternal blessing as a rocket soars impossibly high into a deep blue sky--a male-weepie moment to rival Field of Dreams' climax. An entire audience of NASA brass and astronauts was reportedly broken up at a preview screening in Washington, although when I checked this out with former astronaut Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13 mission, he gave me a cagey "not really" when...