- Country: USA
- Genres: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
- Release: 1981-01-30
- Director: James L. Conway
- Writers: Michael Fisher
- Language: English
- Stars: Burl Ives , Christopher Connelly , Meredith MacRae , Joseph Campanella , Marc Gilpin , Todd Porter , Mindy Dow , Elissa Leeds , Peter Isacksen , John Schuck
- Runtime: 99 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: Destinazione Terra (Italy) , Stacja końcowa Ziemia (Poland) , Χαμένοι στη Γη (Greece) , Med kurs mot jorden (Norway) , Prigionieri della Terra (Italy) , Närkontakt med rymdkompis (Sweden) , Earthbound (United States of America) , Earthbound (United Kingdom) , Earthbound , Pakkolasku avaruudesta (Finland) , Prisioneros en la Tierra (Spain) , Endstation Planet Erde
- Plot: A spaceship carrying a middle-class alien family breaks down over a small town in America, and the "space window" allowing the aliens to return home will disappear in a few hours. Parents, Zef and Lara, their children, Dalem and Teva, and their green chimpanzee hide the spaceship at the bottom of a lake while they search for the special metal necessary to repair it. However, Conrad, an agent with the Federal Space agency, enlists local Sheriff DeRita and his deputy Sweeney to find the spaceship and capture the aliens. Although their chimpanzee is green and eats light bulbs, the alien family looks human, and Ned Anderson, a kind hotel keeper, and his orphaned grandson, Tommy, offer refuge to the family. The aliens have special powers, including the ability to make themselves invisible, which allows them to outwit their pursuers and help Anderson and Tommy with their problems.
- IMDB:tt0082308
Earthbound Cast · · · ALL
James L. Conway
Director
Burl Ives
Ned Anderson
Christopher Connelly
Zef
Meredith MacRae
Lara
Joseph Campanella
Conrad
Marc Gilpin
Dalem
Peter Isacksen
Willy
John Schuck
Sheriff De Rita
Joey Forman
Madden
Stuart Pankin
Sweeney
H.M. Wynant
Dave