An interstellar hero from a distant world visits Earth, and tries to fit in with a mundane, yet kind, suburban family.An interstellar hero from a distant world visits Earth, and tries to fit in with a mundane, yet kind, suburban family.An interstellar hero from a distant world visits Earth, and tries to fit in with a mundane, yet kind, suburban family.
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- TriviaOriginally titled "Urban Commando", and intended for Danny DeVito as Charlie Wilcox and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Shep Ramsey. When these two opted to make Twins (1988), the script was bought by New Line Cinema as the follow-up to their highly successful Hulk Hogan film, No Holds Barred (1989).
- GoofsThe game Ramsey and the kid play in the arcade is Afterburner, a jet combat game that contains no aliens, phasers, photons, anyone named Dragos or anything science fiction related.
- Quotes
Charlie Wilcox: I was FROZEN today!
- ConnectionsEdited into Nostalgia Critic: Top 11 Tom and Jerry Episodes (2023)
- SoundtracksAlmost Like Paradise
Written and Produced by David Michael Frank and Robert Jason
Performed by Robert Jason
Featured review
This has always been highly underrated
Many people tend to slam this movie, but I've always found it quite enjoyable. No, it would never win any prizes, but it's a decent piece of semi-mindless entertainment nonetheless. The strongest part of this is the supporting cast. Christopher Lloyd and Shelley Duvall rarely fail to deliver good performances, while the character of galactic-super-hero Shep Ramsey was tailor-made for Hogans over-the-top personality. Probably the only real reason this did as bad as it did is because it came out right after Hogans first and worst, No Holds Barred. No, this is far from being a great movie, but it's a decent one.
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- jbanks1372
- Sep 30, 2001
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- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Urban Commando
- Filming locations
- Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California, USA(Multiple scenes. Street block that Shep Ramsey walks down before finding room for rent.)
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $6,948,859
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $1,947,744
- Oct 6, 1991
- Gross worldwide
- $6,948,859
- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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