Claim: Jeff Bridges was in a film written by two men.

Starman is a 1984 American science fiction romance film directed by John Carpenter that tells the story of a humanoid alien -LRB- Jeff Bridges -RRB- who has come to Earth in response to the invitation found on the gold phonograph record installed on the Voyager 2 space probe . The original screenplay was written by Bruce A. Evans and Raynold Gideon , with Dean Riesner doing uncredited re-writes . Bridges was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role . The film inspired a short-lived television series of the same name in 1986 .