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One of my all time favorites.

Absolutely the worst movie.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Burnt-out, reclusive folk singer Bobby Sinclair (an excellent performance by the always fine Robert Carradine) and kindly psychic Iris Longacre (nicely played by the fetching Cherie Currie of the Runaways) free a trio of bald, mute, diminutive extraterrestrials -- Gamma (Dov Young), Beta (Joshua Oreck) and Delta (Christian Morris) -- from a top secret army base run by cold-hearted military jerks and help the little guys get back to their home planet. Deftly directed by Mike Gray (who also wrote the intelligent script and previously penned the outstanding screenplay for "The China Syndrome"), with terrifically vivid and engaging performances from the two exceptional leads, unusually well-drawn characters, plenty of touching heart and warmth, and a neat synthesizer score by Tangerine Dream, "Wavelength" makes the grade as a shamefully underrated and overlooked low-budget sci-fi gem. Keenan Wynn contributes a marvelously cantankerous turn as crusty old prospector Dan, plus there are nifty bits by Robert ("Parasite") Glaudini as coolly pragmatic scientist Dr. Wolf and Bobby ("The Supernaturals") Di Cicco as Bobby's good friend Marvin Horn. Pleasant, quirky and simply lovely (the scenes with Bobby and Iris helping out the aliens are very moving and endearing, with the sequence where everyone chills out around a campfire qualifying as the definite delightful highlight), this unsung sleeper deserves to be better known and more widely seen.

Forget about reverse E.T. or whatever that other comment was "trying" to tell you. Whether you think this movie is Good or Bad Cherie Currie is Great. She was great in the Runaways. She was Great in EVERY movie she was in and she's still great in her singing career now. ROCK ON CHERIE YOU'RE THE BEST

Robert Carradine is a hack L.A. musician who lives near an abandoned Air Force Base, Cherie Currie is his semi-psychic girlfriend who hears a strange, high-pitched sound coming from within. That's the set-up for a slow yet engrossing science-fiction story which is by turns credible and yet too mechanical. The middle portion of the film sags with the weight of far too much technical jargon and yammering from government yahoos. Once things get back to Carradine and Currie, the movie recovers for an emotional conclusion. This is the best role Currie's had since 1980's "Foxes" and Carradine is an easy, giving actor who never mugs or hams. Keenan Wynn is also good in support, and the desert locales for the ending are well-captured. A minor offering from New World Pictures, though a highly competent one. **1/2 from ****

If you get a chance to see this movie at all, then understand that WAVELENGTH is reversely similar to E.T. Remember, I said REVERSELY! The first half bores and does not hold my interest. Stick around much longer and maybe you'll enjoy the rest of it. Here's where E.T. is the other way around, as two young people flee the underground research facility with real live aliens, but this looks utterly corny for an 80s sci-fi picture at a time when acting was becoming more improved than the drive-in heydays. The film's climax and conclusion is where your interest wanes once again, meaning you've wasted too much valuable time enjoying a mediocre movie. It has a nice, well thought out idea, but that's not enough when you had an upcoming release that tried to prove superiority over an already big blockbuster movie like E.T.