An excellent Joe Morton (who you may recall from Terminator 2: Judgment Day) plays an alien whose spaceship crash lands on Ellis Island.
When most folks think of indie director John Sayles, they usually think of exquisitely humane dramas about overlooked people, not sci-fi. But The Brother from Another Planet blends those two genres with confidence and cool assuredness. An excellent Joe Morton (who you may recall from Terminator 2: Judgment Day) plays an alien whose spaceship crash lands on Ellis Island. From there, this fish out of water finds himself in Harlem, where Sayles mines ‘80s New York and the neighborhood’s vibrant community to show us how it may appear to an outsider.