Movie: producer/director stages alien abduction to help single mom and kid facing eviction

I remember this movie from the 80's or early 90's. Might have been a TV movie. Looking for the name. Plot outline:

• movie producer/director is making an alien-themed film


• has a young boy (hispanic/latino, perhaps) as a helper around the office and/or set


• boy and his mother are about to be evicted by a wealthy landlord that lives in a big house sort-of in the country (i.e. not suburbs)


• producer/director uses props and special effects to "land" a UFO on the landlord's property during dinner


• "abduct" the guy, load the UFO onto a semi trailer, drive back to soundstage


• the semi with the ufo on the trailer gets pulled over by a cop at one point and it looks like the jig is up (false alarm)


• take the guy aboard the "mothership" where he sees a particular symbol all over


• they tell him he'll recognize the "chosen one" or whatever by that symbol


• at some point in this you see an actor in an alien suit off-duty smoking a cigarette


• return the landlord home or release him


• they rush to get a medallion to the boy with that logo on it


• landlord sees it, takes the heat off the mother/boy re: eviction


• happily ever after?