Out There Movie Review

Unemployed photojournalist buys obsolete camera at a yard sale and discovers the 25-year-old film shows pictures of a flying saucer encounter and abduction by ‘Schwa’ aliens. Attempts to verify the photos plunges him into an underground of crackpots, Hollywood has-beens, tabloid reporters, and insane conspiracies. Gag topics in this cable-made farce touch on such arcane matters as the Ada computer compiler, Nixon's hidden heroism, and THX-1138, but during the film shoot there must have been a humor-dampening field switched on; amazingly little of it is funny despite the promising cast.

1995 (PG-13) 98m/C Bill Campbell, Wendy Schaal, Julie Brown, David Rasche, Paul Dooley, Bill Cobbs, Bob(cat) Goldthwait, Rod Steiger, June Lockhart, Jill St. John, Carel Struycken, Billy Bob Thornton, P.J. Soles; D: Sam Irvin; W: Thomas Strelich, Alison Nigh; C: Gary Tieche; M: Deborah Holland, Frankie Blue. VHS, Beta PAR