Taglines: Fugitive, celebrity, slacker, joker, alien.
Two sci-fi geeks take a pilgrimage to America’s UFO heartland. While there, they accidentally meet an alien who brings them on an insane road trip that alters their universe forever. For the past 60 years, an alien named Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen) has been hanging out at a top-secret military base. When he discovers he’s been taken prisoner, the space-traveling smart ass decides to escape the compound and hop on the first vehicle out of town – a rented RV containing Earthlings Graeme Willy (Simon Pegg) and Clive Gollings (Nick Frost).
Chased by federal agents and the fanatical father of a young woman that they accidentally kidnap, Graeme and Clive hatch a fumbling escape plan to return Paul to his mother ship. And as two nerds struggle to help, one little green man might just take his fellow outcasts from misfits to intergalactic heroes.
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost reunite for the comedy adventure Paul as two sci-fi geeks whose pilgrimage takes them to America’s UFO heartland. While there, they accidentally meet an alien who brings them on an insane road trip that alters their universe forever.
Paul is a British-American comic science fiction road comedy film directed by Greg Mottola and written by and starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, with Seth Rogen as the voice of the title character. The film is about two British science fiction fans who meet an extraterrestrial being with a sarcastic manner and an appetite for alcohol and cigarettes. They help the alien to escape the Secret Service agents who are pursuing him so that he can return to his home planet.
The film contains numerous references to other science fiction films, especially those of Steven Spielberg, as well as to general science fiction fandom. Critical reaction to the film was generally positive.
Paul
Directed: Greg Mottola
Starring: Mia Stallard, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jeremy Owen, Jeffrey Tambor, Jane Lynch, Seth Rogen, Sigourney Weaver, Jason Bateman, Bill Hader
Screenplay by: Nick Frost, Simon Pegg
Production Design by: Jefferson Sage
Cinematography by: Lawrence Sher
Film Editing by: Chris Dickens
Costume Design by: Nancy Steiner
Set Decoration by: Carla Curry
Art Direction by: Richard Fojo
Music by: David Arnold
MPAA Rating: R for language including sexual references, and some drug use.
Studio: Universal Pictures
Release Date: March 18, 2011
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