The brother from another planet
(DVD) 

Originally released as a motion picture in 1984.

Special features: audio commentary by John Sayles, featurette with John Sayles and Maggie Renzi, Casa de los Babys trailer.

""The Brother from Another Planet" (1984) has been preserved by Anarchists' Convention in collaboration with UCLA Film and Television Archive" --Opening frames.

Director of photography, Ernest R. Dickerson ; production designer, Nora Chavooshian ; music, Mason Daring.

Joe Morton (The Brother), Maggie Renzi (Noreen), Ren Woods (Bernice), Steve James (Odell), Leonard Jackson (Smokey), Bill Cobbs (Walter), Tom Wright (Sam), John Sayles (Man In Black), David Strathairn (Man In Black), Fisher Stevens (Card trickster).

Sayles takes a fresh look at our society through the eyes of a black extraterrestrial who crash-lands on Earth -- in Harlem -- and is taken in by the regulars of a local bar. The alien changes everyone he meets on his original and eye-opening journey through the streets of urban America. But can his message of brotherly love resonate with the intergalactic bounty hunters trying to track him down?

MPAA rating: R; for language, some drug content and brief nudity.

DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.85:1) presentation enhanced for widescreen 16:9 televisions ; Dolby digital ; NTSC.

Dialogue in English with optional subtitles in English or Spanish.

Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.