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WHAT PLANET ARE YOU FROM?

Garry Shandling, Annette Bening (2000, Columbia TriStar, 107 mins., R, also on DVD)

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Credits

Rated: R; Genres: Comedy, Sci-fi; With: Annette Bening and Garry Shandling; Distributor: Columbia Pictures

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By Bruce Fretts

So maybe it wasn't wise for director Mike Nichols to spend $50 million or so filming a sci-fi sex farce starring cult pay-cable comic Shandling. But this romp about an alien sent to Earth to impregnate a female member of our species plays almost perfectly on the small screen. It's like 3rd Rock From the Sun -- only funny. A-

Posted Jul 21, 2000

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