DVD 115 min. IMDB 7.8

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Sci-Fi

Henry Thomas	Elliott
Dee Wallace	Mary
Peter Coyote	Keys
Robert MacNaughton	Michael
Drew Barrymore	Gertie
Debra Winger	E.T. [uncredited] [Voice]
K.C. Martel	Greg
Sean Frye	Steve
Erika Eleniak	Pretty girl
David O'Dell	Schoolboy
Dee Wallace-Stone	Mary (as Dee Wallace)
C. Thomas Howell	Tyler (as Tom Howell)
David M. O'Dell	Schoolboy (as David O'Dell)
Richard Swingler	Science Teacher

Regisseur	Steven Spielberg
Producent	Kathleen Kennedy; Steven Spielberg
Schrijver	Melissa Mathison

Both a classic movie for kids and a remarkable portrait of childhood, E.T. is a sci-fi adventure that captures that strange moment in youth when the world is a place of mysterious possibilities (some wonderful, some awful), and the universe seems somehow separate from the one inhabited by grown-ups. Henry Thomas plays Elliott, a young boy living with his single mother ( Dee Wallace ), his older brother Michael ( Robert MacNaughton ), and his younger sister Gertie ( Drew Barrymore ). Elliott often seems lonely and out of sorts, lost in his own world. One day, while looking for something in the back yard, he senses something mysterious in the woods watching him. And he's right: an alien spacecraft on a scientific mission mistakenly left behind an aging botanist who isn't sure how to get home. Eventually Elliott puts his fears aside and makes contact with the "little squashy guy," perhaps the least threatening alien invader ever to hit a movie screen. As Elliott tries to keep the alien under wraps and help him figure out a way to get home, he discovers that the creature can communicate with him telepathically. Soon they begin to learn from each other, and Elliott becomes braver and less threatened by life. E.T. rigs up a communication device from junk he finds around the house, but no one knows if he'll be rescued before a group of government scientists gets hold of him. In 2002, Steven Spielberg re-released E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial in a revised edition, with several deleted scenes restored and digitally refurbished special effects. — Mark Deming