Neill Eddie Calabro
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Alien in the Gate - synopsis

As a former human, now a green alien damned to Hell, Bill doesn’t care about "earning his wings" . . . he’ll settle just to live one floor above the furnace. But this day, new trouble arises upstairs as Bill gets released from the daily grind. In the midst of pissing off the other slacker aliens, Bill learns that he is going to earth.

He screwed up big while mortal and has suppressed the event of his drunken final earth night. But memories begin to resurface on this last assignment; which is sending him to his home town in North Carolina.

Can even Bill not screw this up? He just needs to save a family from crossing a downtown intersection, avoiding a horrific hit-n-run.

The cog in the "will" for Bill is that his assignment is two-fold . . . and far apart. Before he can get to North Carolina he must stop Jake, depressed film student in Los Angeles, from ending his own life.

Jake is of the same moulding as Bill. He's a man after Bill's own heart . . . and liver. And it's doomed from the beginning as Bill offers his Never-Say-TRY attitude.

With the powers-that-be rooting against Bill, his only glimmer of hope is Isabel; a poor, attractive, aspiring, female producer. She'll at least try to keep Bill's head straight and to keep Jake’s head on top of his shoulders. And their one shot to keeping Jake on his feet, without a toe tag, and also getting Bill to North Carolina, is to get Jake involved in a film project.

Bill should've kept silent. He shouldn't have suggested a western. He shouldn't have demanded that Wingers *upstairs* gets him a huge movie star.

So, of course, he gets stuck with washed up western actor, Cowboy Texas Evans.

After a career spanning decades, "Cow-Tex" Evans is now a paparazzi dream. He spends most of his days drinking, shooting up his backyard, and avoiding the police and tabloids.

Alien in the Gate is comprised of broad and cynical humor throughout. Flashbacks slowly recover Bill’s memory as to how he died and who he took with him.

A hilarious and choreographed Ju Jitsu scene pairing Bill and the Governor (can-we-say the former "Ah-nold?") unfolds in the street of a quiet suburban neighbood, displaying their martial-arts prowess, and shocking the neighbors.

A breath-taking action scene finale brings Bill’s two assignments together: "Cow-Tex" Evans performs a daredevil stunt, this unfortunately, is at at the same place and time where the hit-n-run driver threatens the family in North Carolina.

Audiences will love the movie-in-a-movie western scenes.

In the end, Hollywood just might be the (theater) ticket to reviving Jake’s attitude, and saving "Cow-Tex’s" spirit, and screwing Bill’s eternity.