Cocoon (film)

Cocoon is a 1985 American science fiction fantasy comedydrama film directed by Ron Howard about a group of elderly people rejuvenated by aliens. The movie stars Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Brian Dennehy, Jack Gilford, Steve Guttenberg, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Gwen Verdon, Herta Ware, Tahnee Welch, and Linda Harrison. The film is loosely based on the novel of the same name by David Saperstein.

About 10,000 years ago, peaceful aliens from the planet Antarea set up an outpost on the planet Earth, on an island later known to mankind as Atlantis. When Atlantis sank, twenty aliens were left behind, kept alive in large rocklike cocoons at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Now a group of Antareans have returned to Earth to collect them. Disguising themselves as humans, they rent a house with a swimming pool, and charge the water with life force to give the cocooned Antareans energy to survive the trip home. They charter a boat from a local captain named Jack Steve Guttenberg who helps them retrieve the cocoons. Jack likes Kitty Tahnee Welch, a beautiful woman from the team who chartered his boat. When he spies on her while she undresses in her cabin, Jack is shocked when he discovers she is an alien. After the aliens reveal themselves to him and explain whats going on, he decides to help them.Next door to the house the Antareans are renting is Sunny Shores, a retirement home. Three of its residents, Ben Wilford Brimley, Arthur Don Ameche and Joe Hume Cronyn, often trespass to swim in the pool next door, thinking the house to be unoccupied. They absorb some of the life force, making them feel younger and stronger. Eventually caught in the act, they are given permission to use the pool by the Antarean leader, Walter Brian Dennehy, on the condition that they do not touch the cocoons or tell anybody else about it. Rejuvenated with youthful energy, the three men begin to let the advantages of the pool take hold as they are relieved of their ailments such as Joes cancer miraculously disappearing and Bens vision becoming clear, allowing him to be able to drive a car once again. ........

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