E.T. the Extra Terrestrial
E.T. the ExtraTerrestrial is a 1982 American science fictionfamily film coproduced and directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Spielberg and Melissa Mathison, featuring special effects by Carlo Rambaldi and Dennis Muren, and starring Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore and Peter Coyote. It tells the story of Elliott Thomas, a lonely boy who befriends an extraterrestrial, dubbed E.T., who is stranded on Earth. He and his siblings help it return home while attempting to keep it hidden from their mother and the government.
In a California forest, a group of alien botanists collect flora samples. When government agents appear on the scene, they flee in their spaceship, leaving one of their own behind in their haste. At a suburban home, tenyearold boy named Elliott is trying to spend time with his fifteenyearold brother, Michael, and his friends. As he returns from picking up a pizza, he discovers that something is hiding in their tool shed. The creature promptly flees upon being discovered. Despite his familys disbelief, he leaves Reeses Pieces candy to lure it to his bedroom. Before he goes to sleep, he realizes it is imitating his movements. He feigns illness the next morning to stay home from school and play with it. Later that day, Michael and their fiveyearold sister, Gertie, meet it. They decide to keep it hidden from their mother, Mary. When they ask it about its origin, it levitates several balls to represent its solar system and then demonstrates its powers by reviving a dead chrysanthemum.At school the next day, Elliott begins to experience a psychic connection with the alien, including exhibiting signs of intoxication due to it drinking beer, and he begins freeing all the frogs in his biology class. As the alien watches John Wayne kiss Maureen OHara in The Quiet Man, Elliott kisses a girl he likes but he goes too far and is sent to the principals office. ........
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