Credulous retelling of a UFO tall tale: the alien abduction of Travis Walton from the Arizona timberland for five days in 1975. The movie has many of the problems of true stories (lack of imagination, lack of vision, lack of resolution), without the compensating believability. The recollection of the actual captivity is best: believable as a nightmare if as no more. Reaching for the right note for the rest of it causes some severe muscle-strain: five young actors giving a heavy workout to their eyes, brows, lips, in order to approximate the phrase "you look like you've seen a ghost" (near enough to a flying saucer) and looking instead like a company softball team who just blew a big lead in the bottom of the ninth. James Garner and Noble Willingham are rock-solid as the skeptical lawmen on the case, and Kathleen Wilhoite is outstanding as usual, and underused as usual, as the unsupportive wife of one of the witnesses. With D.B. Sweeney, Robert Patrick, Craig Sheffer, and Peter Berg; directed by Robert Lieberman. (1993) — Duncan Shepherd
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