Synopsis
Alien Nation (1988) is a sci-fi crime thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Director Graham Baker drops the buddy-cop formula into an L.A. where 300,000 humanoid aliens — called Newcomers — have spent three years trying to assimilate, and most humans still want nothing to do with them.
Detective Matthew Sykes loses his partner in a shootout involving Newcomer criminals. To close the case, he's partnered with Sam Francisco, the LAPD's first alien detective. James Caan plays Sykes as a man who openly resents his new partner; Mandy Patinkin brings something quieter and stranger to Francisco. The tension between them is the film's real subject — and it earns a fair amount of it. Terence Stamp rounds out the cast as the villain with his usual cold precision.
The movie spawned a Fox TV series that ran into 1990, but the original still holds up as a genre piece that uses science fiction to talk plainly about immigration and prejudice. Stream Alien Nation (1988) online on iFILM.
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