- Total Gross: $792,910,554
- Distributor:Universal
- Release Date: June 11, 1982
- Genre:Adventure
- Running Time: 1 hrs. 57 min.
- MPAA Rating: PG
- Production Budget: $10.5 million
Cast:
Henry Thomas - Elliott
Dee Wallace-Stone - Mary
Robert MacNaughton - Michael
Drew Barrymore - Gertie
Peter Coyote – Keys
1983 Academy Awards® :: 4 Wins out of 9 Nominations
Nominated & Won: Best Sound Effects, Best Visual Effects, Best Music, Best Sound
Nominated: Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Picture, Best Writing/Screenplay Written Directly for the
While visiting the Earth at Night, a group of alien botanists is discovered and disturbed by an approaching human task force. Because of the more than hasty take-off, one of the visitors is left behind. The little alien finds himself all alone on a very strange planet. Fortunately, the extra-terrestrial soon finds a friend and emotional companion in 10-year-old Elliot, who discovered him looking for food in his family's garden shed. While E.T. slowly gets acquainted with Elliot's brother Michael, his sister Gertie as well as with Earth customs, members of the task force work day and night to track down the whereabouts of Earth's first visitor from Outer Space. The wish to go home again is strong in E.T., and after being able to communicate with Elliot and the others, E.T. starts building an improvised device to send a message home for his folks to come and pick him up. But before long, E.T. gets seriously sick, and because of his special connection to Elliot, the young boy suffers, too. The situation gets critical when the task force finally intervenes. By then, all help may already be too late, and there's no alien spaceship in sight. Powered by John Williams' unforgettable, mesmerizing score that shifts between multiple ranges easily, and helps the film manipulate emotions like few other scores have, and by Spielberg's skilled direction, E.T is a film like no other; from a director who is like no other. A deep, personal film for Spielberg, his vision was never more his own than here. It's a film whose genuine innocence has captured the imagination and longing for childhood of many, and will continue to; as it remains one of the greatest American films ever made.
