Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace Stone, Peter
Coyote, Drew Barrymore
Producer
:
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Director
:
Steven Spielberg
Genre
:
Sci Fi
Duration
:
mins
The 2002 rerelease of E.T., which
marks 20 years since the film's 1982 debut, includes
never before seen footage, enhanced visual effects,
and a new remastered soundtrack. E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL
is Steven Spielberg's warmhearted classic delight
for both children and adults. It tells the story
of an alien creature, E.T., mistakenly left behind
on Earth. When a young boy, Elliott (Henry
Thomas), finds E.T. and hides him in his
home, both their worlds are changed forever. E.T.
teaches Elliott and his two siblings (Drew
Barrymore and Robert MacNaughton), whose
parents have recently separated, about caring and
love while the children protect E.T. from the malevolent
world of grown-ups. Elliott and E.T. become so close
that they share emotions; as E.T. becomes ill, so
does Elliott. The children end up going on a fabulous
adventure trying to help E.T. find a way back to
his home planet. The movie was originally going
to be based on a story idea by director John Sayles,
but after he removed himself from the project, screenwriter
Melissa Mathison (Harrison
Ford’s wife) took over the script and
made it her own. John Williams’s beautiful
soundtrack became forever linked to E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL.
