Spaceman

This low-budget sci fi looks like it was filmed in Chicago. There are really no actors I know in it, but it was written and directed by one of the guys who founded the satirical paper The Onion, Scott Dikkers.

The mysterious story--a boy goes missing, was it an abduction by aliens? Years later, some Feds analyze a mysterious spacecraft. There is also an odd looking man working in a supermarket (the boy now grown up)--think SNL’s Coneheads without the cone. He’s industrious and polite, stiff and non-social. His pretty neighbor thinks he’s a sci fi nerd, the type who goes to conventions and dresses up in costumes.


He loses his grocery job but continually is looking for guidance and can’t seem to act for himself, without “orders” from "someone," and we see that he hopes to get a job that matches his skills, namely, as an assassin. He speaks to a barbershop mafia don to become a hit man. After some altercations, he is sent to a psych ward with the Feds on his trail, who finally put two and two together regarding the missing kid and the alien. He ultimately assimilates into society with his long lost mother, the pretty neighbor-turned-girlfriend, and even the mafia don.

The acting and photography is definitely like a B movie (or C movie). It has a feel of a “friends get together to make a film” film. The storyline is kind of Starman-ish with hints of other sci fi films with some action and kung fu thrown in.  This will entertain a very niche or young audience, and managed to do some things on a very small budget, but production values are low and the acting is earnest.