"This film is a weird one," McKelvey admits. "It's an attempt to be as silly as I could and still hopefully tell a legitimate, substantive story about issues in real peoples' lives."

Imagine if the fantastic character of Mary Poppins hadn't drifted down into an equally fantastic, cartoonish London, but instead wound up someplace in the actual world. How would she handle the problems of our lives? Could she help those of us struggling against an economy that can't be fixed with a magical broom and diseases she can't cure with a song?

That's the situation Jeff and Wendy, our two semi-supernatural astronauts, find themselves in when they land in the New Jersey residence of a divorced, working mom... a bit out of their depths.

Meteorite was filmed over a... long period of time; and owes a huge debt of gratitude to everyone who stuck with the film when it looked like we were tackling challenges well beyond our means. Just the fact that we wrapped shooting on every scene in the script - the musical numbers, the challenging locations like the firehouse or nightclub, and the constructed set-pieces - still honestly blows this director's mind.

As a musical, of course, there's a lot of original music. The characters' songs were all written by McKelvey, but there's loads of other great music on board as well. New Jersey punk band Dread Fabrik and Canadian hip-hop group Park-Like Setting contribute great pieces to the soundtrack. And the polyrhtymic pop due Funk Thunder provide the electrifying title theme, which includes the use of a theramin, the exotic electronic instrument used in the signature themes of The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Lost Weekend and Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound.