Martians Go Home is a 1990

1990 in film

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 comedy film

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 starring Randy Quaid

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. It was directed by David Odell

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 and written by Charles S. Haas

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 based on the novel

Martians, Go Home

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 by science fiction

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 author Fredric Brown

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Quaid plays a song writer who accidentally invites a billion Martian

Martian

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s (all portrayed by stand-up comedians from the late eighties and early nineties) to planet Earth.

These Martians become a nuisance to the planet by constantly playing practical jokes and refusing to allow anyone to get away with lying or deception of any kind.