Enemy Mine is a science fiction story by Barry B. Longyear. In 1980 it won the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novella. In 1985 it was produced as a science fiction film by Twentieth Century Fox. The movie was directed by Wolfgang Petersen, and the cast includes Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett, Jr.. Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Barry B. Longyear (born 1942) is an award-winning US science fiction author and screenwriter. ... See also: 1979 in literature, other events of 1980, 1981 in literature, list of years in literature. ... The Hugo Award is given every year for the best science fiction or fantasy stories of the previous year, and for related areas in fandom, art and dramatic presentation. ... The Nebula is an award given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), for the best science fiction/fantasy fiction published in the United States during the two previous years. ... See also: 1984 in film, other events of 1985, 1986 in film, list of years in film. Events Top grossing films Back to the Future, starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson Rambo: First Blood Part II, starring Sylvester Stallone Rocky IV, starring Sylvester Stallone The Color Purple... Poster for The Day the Earth Stood Still, an archetypal science fiction film Science fiction has been a film genre since the earliest days of cinema. ... Related articles FOX Television Network Fox Searchlight Pictures Fox Entertainment Group List of Hollywood movie studios List of movies Variant of current 20th Century Fox logo External links 20th Century Fox Movies official site Twentieth Century Fox is also the punning title of a song by The Doors on their... Wolfgang Petersen Wolfgang Petersen (born March 14, 1941 in Emden, Lower Saxony, Germany) is a German film director. ... Dennis William Quaid (born April 9, 1954) is an American actor. ... Louis Gossett Jr. ...

Tagline: Enemies because they were taught to be. Allies because they had to be. Brothers because they dared to be.

Movie plot summary

It is the 21st century. In the midst of an interstellar war between humans and Dracs (reptilian-like aliens), human pilot Willis Davidge (played by Dennis Quaid) and Drac pilot Jeriba "Jerry" Shigan (played by Louis Gossett Jr.), engage in a spacecraft battle resulting in both crashlanding on Fyrine IV, an alien world with oxygen atmosphere, water, and dangerous but nutritious animal life. The 21st century is the century that began on 1 January 2001 and will last to 31 December 2100. ... The interstellar medium (or ISM) is a term used in astronomy to describe the rarefied gas and dust that exists between the stars (or their immediate circumstellar environment) within a galaxy. ... The United States detonated an atomic bomb over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, effectively ending World War II. The bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima (on August 6) immediately killed between 100,000 and 200,000 people and are the only instances nuclear weapons have ever been used in war. ... Trinomial name Homo sapiens sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 Humans, or human beings, are biologically classified as bipedal primates belonging to the mammalian species Homo sapiens (Latin for wise man or thinking man) under the family Hominidae (the great apes). ... Orders See text. ... The existence of extraterrestrial life remains hypothetical though human beings continue to search Extraterrestrial life is life that may exist and originate outside the planet Earth. ...

After initial hostilities, the two eventually learn to cooperate in order to survive. They work together to build a shelter against the near-constant bombardment by meteorites, and to satisfy their needs for food, water, and warmth. They learn to overcome their differences, become friends, and learn each other's languages and cultures. A meteorite is an extraterrestrial body that survives its impact with the Earths surface without being destroyed. ...

There is also, in the film but not the original novella, a subplot involving an abandoned mine. According to Longyear, this was added at the insistence of the studio, which was afraid that the audience would not understand that the Mine of the title was an adjective.

Later, facing expected death and with child, Jeriba teaches Davidge his full ancestry, a necessity if his child is to be accepted into Drac society. Davidge raises the child Zammis as his own. When Zammis is enslaved by criminal humans, he is rescued by Davidge, other enslaved Dracs, and Davidge's fellow military personnel in an emotional climax wherein the two races are confronted with their shared positive traits.

"This war, as all wars, ends."

In the epilogue, Davidge and Zammis return to the Drac homeworld. Davidge recounts the ancestry before the Holy Council in the traditional ritual, and the audience learns that Davidge's family name is added to the lineage. An epilogue, or rarely epilog, is a piece of writing at the end of a work of drama, usually used to bring closure to the work. ...

External links

• Enemy Mine at The Internet Movie Database
• Parody by The Lonely Island
• Parody re-adapted for Saturday Night Live