Sally Marshall Is Not an Alien

1999
1h 30m

IMDb RATING

YOUR RATING

A young girl obsessed with watching the heavens takes a bet with the bully of the 12 year old set that their oddly acting new neighbors are not aliens from outer space. The bet is her telesc... Read allA young girl obsessed with watching the heavens takes a bet with the bully of the 12 year old set that their oddly acting new neighbors are not aliens from outer space. The bet is her telescope. As might be expected the girl and her new neighbor becomes best friends.A young girl obsessed with watching the heavens takes a bet with the bully of the 12 year old set that their oddly acting new neighbors are not aliens from outer space. The bet is her telescope. As might be expected the girl and her new neighbor becomes best friends.

Director
- Mario Andreacchio
Writers
- Robert Geoffrion
- Amanda McKay
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

5.3/10

175

YOUR RATING

Director
- Mario Andreacchio
Writers
- Robert Geoffrion
- Amanda McKay
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Photos8

Storyline

Edit

Did you know

Edit

Trivia
A book sequel to 'Sally Marshall Is Not an Alien' also written by Amanda McKay and entitled 'Not Sally Marshall Again' was published the following year in 2000. This later novel remains unfilmed in 2020 twenty years later.

Connections
References Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

User reviews7

Review

Featured review

1/10

A brilliant but wholly unoriginal film.

The parallels between this film and "Captain Walrus" (an independant film shown at the Team Projection Film Festival in 1994) are so blindingly obvious that any praise for "Sally Marshall Is Not An Alien" must be viewed with the knowledge that it is riding on the success of another work.

In Captain Walrus, two young boys (Geoff and Roger, played by Dean Turner and Brett Allen respectively) examine the bizarre behaviour of their new neighbour Britney (played by Louise Farley). As the two boys watch through their telescope, they observe the repeated visits of a man in uniform who they call Captain Walrus (played by Peter Sargent). However, the emphasis in Captain Walrus is on the pointless and somewhat power-hungry actions of the neighbour Britney, and less on the friendship between the two boys.

A critical success at the film festival, the plot of Captain Walrus has obviously been appropriated and rehashed in order to give the Australian Film Community another notch on the belt with regards to children's product. Although Sally Marshall is not an Alien is a fine film, and a credit to its producers, its inauthenticity leaves something to be deserved.