Although literate, intelligent and delicate, this odd little domestic psychological drama is far from successful - and unlikely to convert you to the idea of alien sightings, even though it's supposed to be based on the 'true life' story of an American writer who really did see little blue men from outer space and eventually found other people who had seen the same creatures (including his own son). Christopher Walken's performance as the writer is remarkable, and Lindsay Crouse is almost as good as his wife. But the dialogue has a strange, improvised quality which only sporadically comes off and the film tells its interesting story at rather too great a length, making the end product curiously and frustratingly unsatisfactorily. Still, it's not your average dose of gore, slime and schlock and that's for sure: those expecting those elements will be disappointed for other reasons.


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