Media1985

Shelved comedy 'UFOria' finally opens

When: 3 Jul 1985
Sources: 2 public sources

Cindy Williams, who starred in UFOria John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

After years on the shelf, John Binder's 'UFOria' opened in Los Angeles. Cindy Williams plays a desert-town checkout clerk sure a flying saucer is coming for the faithful, with Harry Dean Stanton as a fake evangelist who tries to cash in and Fred Ward as a drifter.

Sources

PressMovie review: A close encounter with 'Uforia' (Kevin Thomas) (opens in a new tab)Los Angeles Times / 1985-07-02
OtherUFOria (1985) catalog entry (opens in a new tab)American Film Institute (AFI Catalog of Feature Films)

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