Lily Tomlin reprises roles from her 1985 Broadway hit for this recently restored feature film version of her comedic one-woman show. 

She revives the 12 unique characters from the performance, including our narrator Trudy, a bag lady who advises extraterrestrials about life on earth. A kind of Gulliver’s Travelogue on the latter half of the 20th Century. The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life on Earth is a compendium of pop history, a living anthropological exhibit. It is also a chronicle of the human heart, trying to mend its bruises and ease its disappointments. It is a dazzling, divinely human comedy. 

Director: John Bailey (US 1991) 120 min.