Taglines: Right suburb. Wrong planet.
Suburban Commando movie storyline. Interstellar warrior Shep Ramsey (Hulk Hogan) is on a mission to capture intergalactic despot General Suitor (William Ball). The general kidnapped President Hashina, the ruler of an entire planet. Shep boards Suitor’s flagship but is unable to rescue Hashina, who is killed by Suitor who turned into a berserk reptilian alien after Hashina wounded him. Shep barely escapes, but is able to blow up the ship as he does so.
Due to his failure in saving the President, Shep’s superior officer (Roy Dotrice) suggests that he is “stressed out” and should take a vacation. Annoyed, Shep accidentally smashes his control systems and is forced to crash land on Earth. He will have to stay until his spaceship repairs itself. He has little knowledge of Earth’s customs, and his temper and sense of justice causes problems with everyone he meets, especially a mime artist he frequently runs into and tries to help such as getting him out of his ‘invisible box’.
Charlie Wilcox (Christopher Lloyd) is a weak-willed architect working for the fawning and hypocritical Adrian Beltz (Larry Miller). His wife Jenny (Shelley Duvall) unsuccessfully encourages him to stand up for himself. In order to help out financially, she rents out Charlie’s hobby shed as a vacation cabin, which Shep leases. Shep’s appearance and behavior makes Charlie nervous and he begins to spy on his guest. He soon discovers Shep’s advanced equipment.
He turns the equipment on, not knowing that the power sources are traceable and its whereabouts are now being tracked by Suitor’s men. They send a pair of intergalactic bounty hunters after Shep. Shep also requires several rare crystals to fix his ship, the closest samples of which can be found in Beltz’s office. Charlie helps Shep get into his boss’s office during a party, but then the bounty hunters corner them. After winning a furious fight, Shep and Charlie head home to repair the ship.
Suburban Commando is a 1991 American science fiction comedy film starring Hulk Hogan, Christopher Lloyd and Shelley Duvall. Burt Kennedy directed the film based on a screenplay by Frank Cappello. It was the veteran director’s final film. The film was originally titled Urban Commando, and was intended for Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger. When these two opted to make Twins (1988), the script was bought by New Line Cinema as the follow-up to another Hulk Hogan film, No Holds Barred.
Suburban Commando (1991)
Directed by: Burt Kennedy
Starring: Hulk Hogan, Christopher Lloyd, Shelley Duvall, Larry Miller, William Ball, Jo Ann Dearing, Jack Elam, Roy Dotrice, Tony Longo, Laura Mooney, Dennis Burkley
Screenplay by: Frank Cappello
Production Design by: Ivo Cristante, C.J. Strawn
Cinematography by: Bernd Heinl
Film Editing by: Terry Stokes
Costume Design by: Ha Nguyen
Set Decoration by: Cliff Cunningham
Art Direction by: Antoine Bonsorte, Karen Kornbau
Music by: David Michael Frank
Distributed by: New Line Cinema
Release Date: October 4, 1991
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