If you loved Date with an Angel, try *batteries not included

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Date with an Angel

1987 · dir. Tom McLoughlin

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*batteries not included

1987 · dir. Matthew Robbins

What they share

Theysit in Comedy / Fantasy / Science Fiction territory. If that's the register that drew you to Date with an Angel, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What *batteries not included is

Tiny alien RVs land on a doomed apartment block where the tenants refuse to sell, until little maintenance bots show up and start renovating in their own insistent way. A greedy developer gets a mechanical comeuppance when his demolition plans attract more help than he bargained for. The only thing recyclable here is the phrase lift with your legs.

If you loved Date with an Angel, try *batteries not included

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What they share

What *batteries not included is

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