My Stepmother is an Alien is a 1988 comedy science fiction film produced by the Weintraub Entertainment Group for release through Columbia Pictures, directed by Richard Benjamin and starring Dan Aykroyd and Kim Basinger, with featured performances by Jon Lovitz and Alyson Hannigan. Celeste is an alien sent on a secret mission to Earth; Steven Mills is a widowed scientist who is working on experimental ways to send radio waves into deep space. An accident causes a loss of gravity on Celeste's home world. She's sent to investigate who could affect gravity and how it was done under the belief... it was an attack. She's aided by an alien device resembling a large phallus with an eye, which hides in a designer purse to aid Celeste with her encounters on Earth. The Bag is able to create diamonds and designer dresses almost instantaneously. Celeste's inexperience leads to her almost exposing herself as alien, like trying to kiss for the first time or cooking.
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| Release date: | December 9, 1988 |
| Directed by: | Richard Benjamin |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 105 Minutes |
| Producer: | Ronald Parker, Laurence Mark |
| Music by: | Alan Silvestri |
| Cinematography: | Richard H. Kline |
| Screenplay by: | Herschel Weingrod, Timothy Harris |
| Estimated budget: | $16,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy, Science Fiction |