Heavy-handed satire leaves the derivative sci-fi comedy WELCOME TO PLANET EARTH grounded.
Charlie (George Wendt) and Rhonda (Shanna Reed) are an unnaturally cheerful bourgeois husband and wife serving time for murder in a maximum-security prison. Flashbacks relate how they arrived one dark and stormy night at a ghetto boardinghouse inherited by Joseph Collins (Christopher M. Brown), a
young petty crook trying to go straight. The chatty couple claim to be tourists on a sightseeing trip with voluptuous grown daughter Daphne (Anastasia Sakelaris), and make themselves comfortable despite the neighborhood squalor and violent crime. Or perhaps because of it; after stu...
Released:
1997
Rated:
R
Length:
82 mins