makes a telepathic connection to Elliott and is soon hidden in his room and introduced to older brother Michael (Robert MacNaughton, "I Am the cheese") and younger sister Gertie (Drew Barrymore, "Riding in Cars with boys"). The little alien makes its way to a suburban backyard storage shed, where he's discovered by Elliott. When government investigators get too close to an alien spaceship, it departs, leaving behind one of its own. hiding in plain site amidst a pyramid of teddy bears and other huggable toys.
It's no surprise that this film's harried single mom (Dee Wallace Stone, "The Frighteners") would overlook E.T. with an eyelit Elliott (Henry Thomas, "All the Pretty Horses") or offering a closeup of a jar-jailed frog.
Speaking of eyes, Spielberg recognized the maternal compulsion to react to the large, wide set eyes of a newborn and emphasized that feature throughout his film, whether balancing a shot of E.T. At its heart a boy-and-his-dog story, "E.T." soars on the basis of the on screen believability of Carlo Rambaldi's titular creation and its director's innate ability to capture the world through a child's eyes. to produce embarrassment at having succumbed to Spielberg's manipulative sentimentality, but "E.T.," when seen on the big screen as it should be, works its magic once again. The Extra-Terrestrial."Īfter two decades, one might expect a revisiting of E.T. Director Steven Spielberg has added 5 minutes of footage and taken advantage of technological advances to enhance the effects of his quintessential film, "E.T.
Twenty years ago, a movie about a young boy who befriends a stranded alien opened with little pre-release fanfare and went on to become one of the most beloved (and top grossing) films of all time.
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