| Wavelength | |
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| Directed by | Mike Gray |
| Written by | Mike Gray |
| Produced by | James Rosenfield |
| Starring | Robert Carradine Cherie Currie Keenan Wynn |
| Cinematography | Paul Goldsmith |
| Edited by | Robert Leighton Mark Goldblatt |
| Music by | Tangerine Dream |
| Distributed by | New World Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1.5 million[1] |
Wavelength is a 1983science fiction film written and directed byMike Gray and starringRobert Carradine,Cherie Currie, andKeenan Wynn.[2]
Bobby Sinclaire (Robert Carradine), a failing Californian musician, meets telepathic Iris Longacre (Cherie Currie) in a bar and they begin a relationship. At Sinclaire's apartment, Longacre begins to hear things others cannot. The young couple discover the voices are from a childlike race of aliens being held by the U.S. government after their UFO crashed. The government plans to use the trio of aliens for experimentation and dissection in a supposedly abandoned underground bunker located near Sinclaire's apartment. The couple decides to liberate the aliens and help them return them to their mothership.
Mike Gray wroteWavelength in 1977 after his deal withColumbia Pictures to directThe China Syndrome fell through.[1] Gray began developing the film atWarner Bros., but following the success ofClose Encounters of the Third Kind Gray's script was dropped as it was deemed too similar.[1] The film was kept going thanks to producer Maurice Rosenfield who secured $1.5 million to filmWavelength independently.[1] The film was shot over the course of six weeks with a non union crew inHollywood,San Pedro, andDeath Valley, California.[1]
It was planned for the movie to be released beforeE.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, but implementation of the film's special effects delayed its release.[3] The 1984 filmStarman was accused of plagiarism by reusing the spaceship scenes in the final scenes of both movies.[4]
| Wavelength | ||||
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| Soundtrack album by | ||||
| Released | September 1983 | |||
| Recorded | 1983 | |||
| Genre | Electronic music | |||
| Length | 37:55 | |||
| Label | Varèse Sarabande | |||
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Wavelength (1983) is the twentieth major release and third soundtrack album by the German bandTangerine Dream. It is the soundtrack for the filmWavelength starringRobert Carradine,Cherie Currie, andKeenan Wynn.[5]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Alien Voices" | 0:16 |
| 2. | "Wavelength Main Title" | 1:54 |
| 3. | "Desert Drive" | 2:00 |
| 4. | "Mojave End Title" | 3:59 |
| 5. | "Healing" | 2:23 |
| 6. | "Breakout" | 1:09 |
| 7. | "Alien Goodbyes" | 1:50 |
| 8. | "Spaceship" | 2:18 |
| 9. | "Church Theme" | 3:41 |
| 10. | "Sunset Drive" | 3:23 |
| 11. | "Airshaft" | 3:10 |
| 12. | "Alley Walk" | 2:55 |
| 13. | "Cyro Lab" | 2:13 |
| 14. | "Running Through The Hills" | 1:30 |
| 15. | "Campfire Theme" | 1:23 |
| 16. | "Mojave End Title Reprise" | 3:51 |
Many of the tracks are remixes from other albums:
TV Guide gave the movie two out of five stars, praising the movie's sense of morality and soundtrack, but found Carradine's performance lacking during the music scenes and the narration at the beginning and ending of the film to be very detrimental to the movie.[6] Moria found that the movie has a promising build up, but that the film heads in predictable directions, and that its special effects were lacking.[7] Creature Feature found that the movie was an interesting morality tale, and also praised the soundtrack, but said that the use of children to play the aliens hampered the film.[8][9]