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The brother from another planet 1984 cast and crew the brother joe morton is an alien and escaped slave on the run from his home planet. Homer and tom fight, and homer reconciles with bart, and tom becomes pepis bigger brother. A mute alien with the appearance of a black human is chased by outerspace bounty hunters through the streets of harlem. An even more mysterious alien arrives to clean it up. Multiple links are listed since a different versions exist and b many scripts posted become unavailable over time.
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