Description:

A fresh vantage point on modern life is offered through the eyes of a black extraterrestrial who crash lands on Earth—in Harlem, naturally—and is taken in by the regulars at a local bar. The alien changes everyone he meets on his journey through the streets of urban America. But can his message of brotherly love resonate with intergalactic bounty hunters trying to track him down? John Sayles twists several B film genres together into this surprising and incisive moral tale that is, in spite of its far fetched premises, played disarmingly straight. John Sayles had established himself as an important player in a new committed independent cinema which paved the way for the coming “indie” film boom.