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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
EAN: 0031398157526
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 10, 2004
Running Time: 616 minutes
Sales Rank: 2904
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: September 22, 1986
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On September 221986 a lovable alien named Alf crashed his spaceship into the home of unsuspecting tanner family for the next four years Alf elusively avoided houseguests chased the family cat ate everything in sight and broke anything of value but the Tanners always loved the old Alfer.System Requirements: Running Time 616 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 031398157526 Manufacturer No: 15753
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"He's just like E.T.," says a character of the fuzzy extraterrestrial stranded on Earth in the pilot episode of ALF. But the fun of this late 1980s family sitcom is that the sardonic ALF (an acronym for Alien Life Form) is nothing like the interplanetary innocent of Steven Spielberg's classic. With his whiplash wit and huckster sensibility, ALF (real name: Gordon Shumway from the late planet Melmac, Lower East Side) enters the lives of the Tanner family as a fully formed rascal whose spacecraft crashes into their garage one night. Worried that the feds will chop ALF up for research purposes, the Tanners--father Willie (Max Wright), a cautious civil servant who doesn't like a lot of fuss at home; wife Kate (Anne Shedeen), and kids Lynn (Andrea Elson) and Brian (Benji Gregory)--reluctantly take ALF in like a shambling, profligate uncle who cracks wise despite having fallen on hard times.
There is a touch of darkness to ALF that inspires some interesting episodes. While most of season 1's episodes find the Tanners and their permanent guest struggling with compatibility, certain stories are sharper for indulging a little black comedy. "Looking for Lucky," for instance, finds Willie and Kate assuming that ALF--who is quite open about his fondness for eating cats--made a snack out of the family kitty. In "Pennsylvania 6-5000," Willie is accused of being a terrorist after ALF uses his host's ham radio to contact Air Force One. One of the best episodes, "Wild Thing" (written by David Silverman, later a co-producer on The Simpsons), is a nutty burlesque in which ALF asks the Tanners to lock him in a crate while he undergoes a 24-hour madness peculiar to Melmac-ians. After he escapes, chaos ensues in the community as cats disappear, a gorilla is freed at the zoo, and Willie--looking for ALF--prowls the streets in his pajamas. Fans of Jerry Stahl's book Permanent Midnight: A Memoir, in which the Hollywood writer describes working on ALF while supporting a severe drug habit, will be interested in his season 1 scripts, particularly the surreal "La Cucaracha," in which ALF and Willie do battle with a car-size cockroach. --Tom Keogh
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The kids love it...
Keep the volume down. Dad's voice drives me up a wall...
Rating:  -
Alf was hugely popular when it was first launched, and despite the by now dated technology, it is still entertaining - much due to the funny cast. You will have to adjust to the blunt obvious form of jokes, and never question why an alien speeks fluently english etc. etc. etc.
Highly recommended for a time off the everyday stress, and the kids love it.
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Alf is delightful for all ages. My son was hooked on Alf from the age of 3, and my husband and I were also hooked. This is absolute good clean fun for all ages, especially if you're a science fiction buff (well, okay, that's a stretch). But it is fun for all ages. The science fiction thing is iffy.
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Hello Alf-friends,
this is Klaus from Stuttgart southwest-Germany.
I would say very much with pleasure something about the 4 Alf-Seasons:
I have this series as them in Germany during the eighties years ran, very much beloved. The way like the extraterrestrial Alf the Tanners terrorized, is simply delightful! But: it is much better naturally, to see the original-English series. Since the German synchronized dialogs often simply do not agree with the English original version, because ... Read More
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I kept putting off buying this. And now I wonder why. Its worth the money and it makes a great gift.
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