The 1980s was a decade of excellence and excess for science fiction flicks. With existential thrillers, crowd-pleasing blockbusters, and Saturday matinee popcorn fare like "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back," "Flash Gordon," "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial," "The Thing," "Blade Runner," "Star Wars: Return of the Jedi," "Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan," "The Last Starfighter," "Dune," "Terminator," "Predator," and "The Abyss" all making the popular genre a pure money-printing haven for Tinsel Town.
But one overlooked sci-fi release launched at Christmastime on Dec. 20, 1985, is director Wolfgang Petersen's "Enemy Mine." Set in the year 2092 as an interstellar war erupts, Earthling space pilot Will Davidge (Dennis Quaid) and a reptilian alien Drac (Lou Gossett Jr.) crash land on barren Fyrine IV after an intense dogfight over the hostile planet, where they must set aside their hate to defeat monstrous threats lurking above and beneath the world's surface.
