Charles Abbott

Gary Kelp (Samuel Johnson) is losing the plot. As he edits a medical journal called The Illustrated Family Doctor, his life and his body seem to be falling apart. A black comedy about coping with the modern world, based on the novel by David Snell.

Kay a peur de tout : du présent, de l'avenir, de la vie, de la mort. Tout semble s'arranger lorsqu'elle se met en ménage avec Louis, l'ancien fiancé d'une collègue. Mais ce bonheur apparent ne dure qu'un temps et ses angoisses la reprennent. C'est alors qu'apparaît Sweetie, sa jeune soeur, obèse, debraillée et sympathique, qui laisse dans son sillage un énorme nuage d'entropie...

The Alien Years is a three-part miniseries that first aired on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on 19 April 1988. It was directed by Donald Crombie and written by Peter Yeldham. It stars Victoria Longley, John Hargreaves and Academy Award-winner, Christoph Waltz. Yeldham later adapted his screenplay into a novel of the same name.