The Search For Signs Of Intelligent Life In The Universe

Adapting The Search For Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, their celebrated stage show, Lily Tomlin and longtime collaborator Jane Wagner have fashioned a remarkably fluid, engrossing and entertaining film, directed by cinematographer John Bailey.

A showcase for Tomlin's style of observational, character-based comedy, the plot, such as it is, is more pretext than premise. Tomlin plays all roles in the loose story of Trudy, a demented bag lady, entertaining visitors from space one rainy evening in the city, whose sojourn leads her to intersect with a wide variety of other lives. These include Chrissy, a perennially unemployed dyslexic secretary wh...