Earth Girls Are Easy
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- For the episode of The O.C., see The Earth Girls Are Easy
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 Earth Girls Are Easy movie poster |
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| Directed by | Julien Temple |
| Produced by | Tony Garnett Duncan Henderson Terrence E. McNally |
| Written by | Julie Brown Charlie Coffey Terrence E. McNally |
| Starring | Geena Davis Jeff Goldblum Jim Carrey Damon Wayans |
| Music by | Ray Colcord Nile Rodgers Julie Brown |
| Cinematography | Oliver Stapleton |
| Editing by | Richard Halsey |
| Distributed by | Artisan Entertainment |
| Release date(s) | May 12, 1989 (USA) |
| Running time | 100 min. |
| Country | UK/USA |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $10 million (estimated) |
| Gross revenue | $4 million (sub-total) |
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Earth Girls Are Easy is a 1988 American comedy/musical film directed by Julien Temple. It stars Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Michael McKean, Julie Brown, and hitherto largely unknown comedians Jim Carrey and Damon Wayans. The film is marketed with the tagline "An out-of-this-world, down-to-earth comedy adventure". The film's plot is based on the song "Earth Girls Are Easy" from Julie Brown's 1984 mini-album Goddess In Progress.
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[edit] Plot summary
The movie begins with three aliens, a blue one, a red one, and a yellow one, flying in a spaceship. While watching a music holographic video of a multi-coloured woman, they come across Earth. And, deciding that there were girls down there, decided to go down to Earth.
Valerie Gail (Davis) is a valley girl manicurist who works for the "Curl Up & Dye" hair salon. When she feels her cold fiancé Dr. Ted Gallagher (Rocket) is slipping away from her, she attempts to seduce him with a new look; instead she catches him cheating on her. The day after throwing him out, she is sunbathing by her pool when the alien ship that the three alien are in crash lands in it. Not knowing what to do, she takes them to her best friend Candy Pink (Brown, who also co-wrote and co-produced). After shaving off the aliens' fur, they turn out to be incredibly hunky looking men. They all go out and party at Los Angeles nightclubs.
The three aliens — Wiploc (Carrey), the red alien; Zeebo (Wayans), the yellow alien; and Mac (Goldblum), the blue alien — absorb human culture through ten minutes of television, and Valerie takes them out into the human world. Predictable social blunders ensue. Soon Valerie is in love with studly Mac, and after a night of lovemaking (which she's wary of at first, until seeing that Mac is indeed anatomically correct for her) she decides to abandon her valley life in favor of space travel with her hunky new alien lover.
[edit] Cast
| Actor | Role |
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| Geena Davis | Valerie Gail |
| Jeff Goldblum | Mac |
| Jim Carrey | Wiploc |
| Damon Wayans | Zeebo |
| Julie Brown | Candy Pink |
| Michael McKean | Woody |
| Charles Rocket | Dr. Ted Gallagher |
| Larry Linville | Dr. Bob |
| Rick Overton | Dr. Rick |
[edit] Award nominations
- Nominated: Best Film, Julien Temple (1990)
- Nominated: Best Cinematography, Oliver Stapleton (1990)
- Nominated: Worst Supporting Actress, Angelyne (1990) (To note, Angelyne appears in the film for less than two minutes.)
[edit] Stage show
In 2005 a staged reading/performance of a musical play version of the film was performed several times in Los Angeles. The character of Valerie was played by Kristin Chenoweth, with Julie Brown reprising her role as Candy. The play did not go into production but memorably there was tension between Brown and Chenowith because Chenowith wanted to perform Brown's well known song from the film, "'Cause I'm a Blonde". Brown insisted on singing it herself.
[edit] Trivia
- The main character Val (in a rephrased misquotation (in homage) to The Wizard of Oz) says to Wiploc "I think I'll miss you least of all." when she is still planning to remain on earth as the aliens prepare to depart. This mirrors Dorothy's comment to the Scarecrow that she will "Miss him most of all." as she prepares to leave Oz.
