David Bowie stars in this film. Nicholas Roeg also directed Walkabout, Don't Look Now...amazing stuff.
In this film David Bowie plays a space alien who comes to Earth looking for a way to transport water to his drought-stricken planet.
What I love is that he seems to come from a planet where his species/race has evolved into a truly peaceful and non-aggressive type of being. So they are incapable of coming to Earth as colonizers - so the best that the David Bowie character - Tommy - can do is to try to make a lot of money here to build a spaceship to transport water to his planet. His inability to be aggressive is not an asset in his pursuit of getting water back to his planet.
