Wavelength

Wavelength (1983)

A cry for help, light years beyond our imagination.

Two young lovers learn that a small group of child-like space aliens are marooned on Earth and are being held prisoner at a top secret military facility. The couple then decide to liberate the extraterrestrial castaways and help them make a rendezvous with a rescue ship sent from the alien home planet.

Date of release
1983-09-16
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (35)
Runtime
1h 27m
Genres
Science Fiction, Drama
Director
Mike Gray

Casting

Interesting facts

Wavelength is a 1983 science fiction film written and directed by Mike Gray and starring Robert Carradine, Cherie Currie, and Keenan Wynn.

Production

Mike Gray wrote Wavelength in 1977 after his deal with Columbia Pictures to direct The China Syndrome fell through. Gray began developing the film at Warner Bros., but following the success of Close Encounters of the Third Kind Gray's script was dropped as it was deemed too similar. The film was kept going thanks to producer Maurice Rosenfield who secured $1.5 million to film Wavelength independently.

It was planned for the movie to be released before E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, but implementation of the film's special effects delayed its release. The 1984 film Starman was accused of plagiarism by reusing the spaceship scenes in the final scenes of both movies.

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