
Near a backwoods Ontario small town, a young alien, on vacation, crashes in his ship. Disoriented, this confused young extraterrestrial is captured by a young boy who, after naming him Phil, introduces him to the stupor of hard liquor before the boy's hick father throws him out. Roaring drunk and bunking with a friendly talking beaver, Phil eventually wanders into a bar where his new addiction traps him even while he wants to go home. Meanwhile, a secret US black ops organiza... (Full plot summary below)
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Near a backwoods Ontario small town, a young alien, on vacation, crashes in his ship. Disoriented, this confused young extraterrestrial is captured by a young boy who, after naming him Phil, introduces him to the stupor of hard liquor before the boy's hick father throws him out. Roaring drunk and bunking with a friendly talking beaver, Phil eventually wanders into a bar where his new addiction traps him even while he wants to go home. Meanwhile, a secret US black ops organization activates a drunken field agent to find the alien. However, while he searches, Phil's easily manipulated personality leads him down paths that will profoundly affect his new native friends.
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| The Tyee (British Columbia)Dorothy WoodendCanada is a funny place, so why can't we make a comedy that's actually funny? |
| eFilmCritic.comScott WeinbergThere's an irrepressible silliness and a palpable sense of kitsch that runs through much of Phil the Alien. And it's funny. |
| Georgia StraightKen EisnerFunny only in an I-can't-believe-they're-doing-that kind of way. |
| Jam! MoviesBruce KirklandThis low-budget Canadian comedy rocks the house like few others. |
| User ReviewDave BThis movie is so bad, but it's amazing! |
| User ReviewKass BGreat Canadian comedy about an Alien that comes to earth, gets wasted and then finds religion after being thrown in jail. Hilarious !!! |
| User ReviewChristopher SIf you've ever been to northern ontario, this will have you rollin' on the bar room floor. |
| User ReviewZoey GFunniest fuckin' movie EVER! Everyone must watch this. (I believe I was drunk when I did, but still.) |
| User ReviewChrissy Ki think i peed myself! ha ha ha .. not badd for being canadian .. but over the years i've sorta changed my opinion on canadian entertainment ... try the drinking game!!! lol .. i promise you you wont make it!!! ha ha ha ha ha |
| User ReviewAynsley BThis is one of the funniest movies ever, and everyone I've forced to see it loves it. There's something about the bizarre modesty of the whole thing, and about Phil, a shy, cute, and not always very smart alien, and the way he manages to bring all sorts of weird, sometimes unattractive, sometimes downright evil people together. And don't we all really believe that the US has a top secret anti-alien military base behind Niagara Falls? I mean, I'd never thought of it before I saw this, but doesn't it make total sense? Now the agents in coloured fur coats and their very gay boss with a dolphin obsession are a little harder to swallow, but who expects spies who deal with aliens to be totally normal? |