Joe Morton Darryl Edwards Steve James Bill Cobbs David Strathairn
Cinematography
Ernest R. Dickerson
Edited by
John Sayles
Music by
Mason Daring John Sayles Denzil Botus
Distributed by
Cinecom Pictures
Release date
September 7, 1984 (1984-09-07) (United States)
Running time
108 minutes[1]
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$350,000[2]
Box office
over $4 million[2]
The Brother from Another Planet is a 1984 low-budget American science fiction film, written and directed by John Sayles.
The film, starring Joe Morton as an escaped extraterrestrial slave trying to find a new life on Earth, is in the public domain.[3][4] Morton's performance as The Brother was acclaimed, as he had no lines of dialogue and had to communicate through facial expressions and body language alone.
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