Video: The Brother From Another Planet

After watching the wonderful Joe Morton on DVD this week in American Gangster, I started thinking about one of his early roles - the lead in John Sayles' The Brother from Another Planet . It's a great film, even in its cheesiness, but there's nothing quite like this absolutely terrible trailer, which you can check out above. I wonder what Sayles thought when he saw that, because while it's endlessly amusing now, it's pretty embarrassing for such a solid film. Sporting tacky review quotes like: "It's Cheers goes to Harlem"and "it's E.T. rides the underground [...]