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I vaguely remember this 80s movie but somehow never got to see it, I’m not sure why since movies with aliens and flying saucers should have been on my radar. It’s pretty neat. It stars Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn as an elderly couple trying to stay in their little apartment building which a land developer wants to tear down for a new development. There’s an eclectic collection of oddballs living in the apartment who also don’t want to leave — a pregnant Mexican girl, an artist, a retired boxer, etc. A punk comes by and damages their diner that’s on the ground floor of the building and tells them they must sell. Then the old woman discovers some tiny flying saucers. I couldn’t really tell if they were robots, living creatures, or had tiny aliens inside (it was never made clear), but the bottom line is the saucers help the people (they repair the damage to the diner) and through their help the people rally to fight the developer. It’s a little uneven and the film definitely weakens toward the end, and the mystery of the aliens is never really explained, making them seem like a generic solution — it could just as easily have been magic or the supernatural that helped them. But it’s still a pleasant and unusual film, and I loved the relationship of Tandy and Cronyn.
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