What Planet Are You From?

What Planet Are You From? (2000)

To save his planet, an alien must find a woman on Earth to have his baby. There's just one problem.

A human-looking alien from a highly advanced but emotionless all-male society is sent to Earth to impregnate a woman and bring the child back to their planet. The alien ends up falling in love while a suspicious FAA agent tails him.

Date of release
2000-03-03
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (175)
Runtime
1h 45m
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Romance, Science Fiction
Director
Mike Nichols

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Arizona and Los Angeles

What Planet Are You From? is a 2000 American science fiction comedy film directed by Mike Nichols and written by Michael Leeson, Garry Shandling, Ed Solomon, and Peter Tolan based on a story by Leeson and Shandling. The film stars Shandling, Annette Bening, Greg Kinnear, Ben Kingsley, Linda Fiorentino, and John Goodman.

Production

Shandling set up the film while starring in HBO's The Larry Sanders Show, with initial drafts written by Ed Solomon and Michael Leeson before a rewrite was performed by Shandling and his former Sanders producer Peter Tolan.

In December 1998, it was announced Mike Nichols had entered negotiations to direct the film.

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