OBSERVATIONS: My Stepmother Is An Alien (Japanese, RCA Columbia, 1989) · 2:31am Feb 17th, 2017
Turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so . . .
A million light-years from home, she's found a husband, a stepdaughter and a dog. When she finds out about sex, she may just stay for weekend.
Release date: Approx. mid-to-late 1989
Video: 3.5 out of 5
Audio: 4 out of 5
Film: 3.5 out of 5
Anything else: Got previews for ACTION JACKSON, TAPEHEADS and TAP at the start (see below) . . . the American tape has no previews.
THOUGHTS ON THE FILM AND THE WAY IT WAS TRANSFERRED
You really need to see this hilariously warped contribution from the late Jerry Weintraub* to believe it. It's about an alien who becomes a beautiful young lady (Kim Basinger) on her visit to Planet Earth; she is assigned to a rather nerdy young scientist played by Dan Aykroyd, who is so engrossed in his relationship with her that he isn't aware of the connection between her arrival and his work.
As mentioned, this tape opens with previews for ACTION JACKSON, TAPEHEADS and TAP as proven by the video below. Two of the trailers (and the film) are taken from UK videotape prints that RCA/Columbia simply slapped Kenji subtitles on (they are an NTSC country while England is a PAL country); the film itself runs 101 minutes on the tape although it says 103 minutes on the box . . . if you can actually read Japanese but the film itself originally ran for 105 minutes.
*Produced by his Weintraub Entertainment Group, which Columbia held a stake in (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weintraub_Entertainment_Group)
RELEASE INFORMATION (North America)
The VHS and Laserdisc of MY STEPMOTHER IS AN ALIEN were originally issued here in early 1989; each format's release of the film was unique in that those two had custom WEG bordering around the box. The VHS was later reprinted by Columbia TriStar, retaining the original graphics.
MY STEPMOTHER IS AN ALIEN was first released on DVD on April 14, 1998 and was paired with the direct-to-video film LITTLE SECRETS on a Mill Creek DVD.
MY STEPMOTHER IS AN ALIEN was never released on Blu-Ray.
