Doin' Time on Planet Earth

Doin' Time on Planet Earth (1988)

A story of teenage alienation.

Ryan Richmond is an eccentric teenager living with his mother, father, sister and brother in the Holiday Inn they own in Sunnyvale, Arizona, the prune capital of the world. Is it any wonder that he wants to go to Saudi Arabaia for college and leave Sunnyvale far, far behind? He spends his days at school with his sex-obsessed best friend Dan Forrester and lusts after Lisa Winston, the sexy lounge singer who his parents have hired to perform at the Holiday Inn. Stuck without a date for his brother's wedding to a senator's daughter, Ryan goes to a computer dating service, which asks him such questions as "Can you breathe foreign substances?" Soon, Ryan is told that he may be an alien stuck on Earth along with thousands of others. Soon, Charles and Edna Pinsky show up and tell him that he may an alien prince meant to lead his brethren home. And that's when things get out of control...

Date of release
1988-09-16
TMDB
4.0 / 10 (12)
Runtime
1h 25m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Charles Matthau

Casting

Interesting facts

Doin' Time on Planet Earth is a 1988 American comedy film directed by Charles Matthau and written by Darren Star. The film stars Nicholas Strouse, Andrea Thompson, Martha Scott, Adam West, Hugh Gillin, and Matt Adler. The film was released on September 16, 1988, by Cannon Film Distributors.

Production

The film's working title was Extraterrestrials Only. Principal photography for Doin' Time on Planet Earth began in October 1986 in California and lasted for seven weeks. Per Cinemafantastique, the film had a budget of $27 million; an article in The San Francisco Chronicle listed its budget as $3 million. Cannon chose Charles Matthau to helm the film via their Young Filmmakers Program and Richard Connor served as producer.

For one of the final scenes a rotating turntable was constructed by Reel EFX, Inc that weighed 45,000 pounds and was over 50 feet across. The device cost approximately $100,000 and took four weeks to build.

Brian Wilson wrote and recorded a theme song for the film, which went unused. The song was later reworked as the B-side "Being With the One You Love".

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