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Released
1988 · FILM

Earth Girls Are Easy

When her cheating boyfriend abandons her, a down‑on‑her‑luck Los Angeles woman must navigate the chaos of three flamboyant aliens who crash into her pool and plunge her into an outlandish romance that could either save their intergalactic hearts or leave them stranded forever.

Valerie's about to discover how far a girl has to go to find Mr. Right.

Directed by
Runtime
100 min
ComedyMusicalRomance

Synopsis

In this musical comedy, Valerie is dealing with her philandering fiancé, Ted, when she discovers that a trio of aliens have crashed their spaceship into her swimming pool. Once the furry beings are shaved at her girlfriend's salon, the women discover three handsome men underneath. After absorbing the native culture through television, the spacemen are ready to enter the dating scene in 1980s Los Angeles.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Richard HalseyShot by Oliver StapletonScored by Nile RodgersDesigned by Dennis Gassner

Box Office

1988 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.4× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$3.9M

Budget$10.0M
Worldwide gross$3.9M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Mein Liebhaber vom anderen Sternde
  • Zebo, der dritte aus der Sternenmittede
  • Earth Girls Are Easyen
  • Objectif Terriennefr
  • Le ragazze della Terra sono faciliit

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