An extraterrestrial the size and shape of a boot box crashes into the New Jersey cul-de-sac Colonial of a film-noir-obsessed family on the sharp edge of emotional, marital, and financial insolvency; rearranges its subatomic structure; and presents itself as the couples’ long-time film-noir lust crushes: late noir icons Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake. In short order, Alan/Veronica displays an appetite for suburban debauchery, depravity, decadence, and destruction and seduces the family into its psychopathic criminal orbit with irresistible film noir panache, alluring sexual charisma, and inconceivable intergalactic powers. Twelve-year-old genius daughter, Mike Devine, figures out fast that Alan/Veronica’s plan is to implode the planet. Can she save the world, not to mention her family? She’ll need the only armament in the universe that can subdue the extraterrestrial, and she’ll have to shoot it point blank. So it’s questionable at best. Rich Leder has been a working writer for more than three decades. His credits include eight novels for Laugh Riot Press and 19 produced movies-television films for CBS, Lifetime, and Hallmark and feature films for Lionsgate, Paramount Pictures, Tri-Star Pictures, Longridge Productions, and Left Bank Films. He's been the lead singer in a Detroit rock band, a restaurateur, a Little League coach, an indie film director, a literacy tutor, a magazine editor, a screenwriting coach, a wedding consultant (it's true), a PTA board member, a HOA president (also true, unfortunately), a commercial real estate agent, and a visiting artist for the UNCW Film Studies Department, all of which, it turns out, was grist for the mill.