| Simon | |
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| Directed by | Marshall Brickman |
| Produced by | Martin Bregman |
| Written by | Marshall Brickman Thomas Baum |
| Screenplay by | Marshall Brickman |
| Starring | Alan Arkin Madeline Kahn Austin Pendleton Wallace Shawn Fred Gwynne |
| Studio | Orion Pictures |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | 1980 |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
Simon is a 1980 American comedy film. It was directed by Marshall Brickman and stars Alan Arkin.
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The Institute for Advanced Concepts, a group of scientists with an unlimited budget and a propensity for elaborate pranks, brainwash a psychology professor named Simon Mendelssohn who was abandoned at birth and manage to convince him, and the rest of the world, that he is of extraterrestrial origin.
Simon escapes and attempts to reform American culture by overriding TV signals with a high power TV transmitter, becoming a national celebrity in the process.
Alan Arkin was nominated for Best Actor in the 1981 Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films.[1]
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