The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human (1999)

Directors

Jeff Abugov

Cast

Mackenzie Astin, Carmen Electra, Markus Redmond, Lucy Liu

The story

Hyde Pierce, acting out the role of an alien (credited as "infinity-cubed" in the opening credits), narrates a courtship in a late 20th-century American city, presenting findings and opinions as an extraterrestrial nature documentary. The relationship "footage" is played straight, while the voice-over (with its most often wildly inaccurate theories) and elaborate visual metaphors add comedy. Among other themes the film explores the possibility that, whenever describing their interpretations of other species' acts and feelings, humans may get everything wrong.

Genres

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