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Coneheads is a 1993 American science fiction comedy film directed by Steve Barron and written by Dan Aykroyd. Based on the Saturday Night Live sketch, the movie features Jane Curtin, Dan Aykroyd, Michelle Burke, and Ellen DeGeneres in the cast. Lorne Michaels served as producer, with Francis Kenny as director of photography and David Newman composing the score. The narrative is set in New Jersey.
Paramount Pictures produced and distributed the film, which was later released on video on demand by Netflix. The runtime is listed as 87 or 88 minutes. The movie had a budget of 33,000,000 and generated revenue of 21,274,717. Critical assessments include a 35% score, a 4.7/10 rating, and a 49/100 score. Audience ratings include a 5.5 on IMDb and a 5.493 average on TMDb. The film is tagged with themes such as extraterrestrial technology and alien life-forms.
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Film · TMDB
5.5A pair of aliens arrive on Earth to prepare for invasion, but crash instead. With enormous cone-shaped heads, robotlike walks and an appetite for toilet paper, aliens Beldar and Prymatt don't exactly blend in with the population of Paramus, N.J. But for some reason, everyone believes them when they say they're from France.
Cast
- Dan Aykroyd as Beldar
- Jane Curtin as Prymatt
- Michael McKean as Gorman Seedling, INS Deputy Commissioner
- Laraine Newman as Laarta
- Jason Alexander as Larry Farber
- Lisa Jane Persky as Lisa Farber
Themes
- extraterrestrial technology
- alien life-form
- space invasion
- nostalgic
- coneheads
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- Saturday Night Live
- Director
- Steve Barron
- Screenwriter
- Dan Aykroyd
- Composer
- David Newman
- Producer
- Lorne Michaels
- Production company
- Paramount Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Francis Kenny
- Narrative location
- New Jersey
- Duration
- 87
- FilmAffinity ID
- 246129
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1994-08-04
- title
- Coneheads
- distributed by
- Netflix
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 49/100
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