The Meteor Man

IMDb link: 0107563
IMDb rating: 5.2 (9,456 votes)
Genres: Action, Comedy, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Fantasy
Director: Robert Townsend, Robert Guillaume
Cast: Eddie Griffin, Marla Gibbs and others

Release date: 6 Aug 1993
Release year: 1993
Runtime: 100 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: black superhero, non comic book superhero, teensploitation, psychotronic film, gender in title, three word title, astronomical object in title, man wears pajamas, man wears eyeglasses, washington d.c.

Plot:

Jefferson Reed is a mild mannered school teacher in Washington D.C. He has just discovered that his backbone and it's stronger than steel! Jefferson would rather run than fight until he's hit by a strange green meteor that gives him superhuman abilities. And when a gang led by a powerful drug lord begins terrorizing his family and neighbors, Jefferson has no choice but to don his homemade spandex suit and take it on in a war of cunning, wit and super-powered, super-modeling prowess' to save his 'hood!

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