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Starring: Dee Wallace Stone, Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote (View All)
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Starring: Dee Wallace Stone, Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote
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, All Movie Guide
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US Release Date
6/11/82
MPAA Rating
Rated PG
Running Time
115 mins.
Language
- English
Box Office Total
$35,144,920
Awards
- Nominated for a Best Director award at the 1982 Directors Guild of America [Festival/A Awards.
- Nominated for a New Star of the Year - Male award at the 1982 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture award at the 1983 People's Choice Awards [Festival/Award Awards.
- Winner of the 100 Greatest American Movies award at the 1998 American Film Institute [Festival/Awar Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture award at the 1982 Los Angeles Film Critics Association [ Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 1982 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Cinematography award at the 1982 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Screenplay award at the 1982 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Original Screenplay award at the 1982 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Original Score award at the 1982 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Sound award at the 1982 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the New Generation Award award at the 1982 Los Angeles Film Critics Association [ Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Editing award at the 1982 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 1982 National Board of Review [Festival/Awa Awards.
- Winner of the Best Visual Effects award at the 1982 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the U.S. National Film Registry award at the 1993 Library of Congress [Festival/Award] Awards.
- Winner of the Best Original Score award at the 1982 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Director award at the 1982 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture - Drama award at the 1982 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Director award at the 1982 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Winner of the Best Director award at the 1982 Los Angeles Film Critics Association [ Awards.
- Winner of the Best Sound Effects award at the 1982 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Anthony Asquith Award award at the 1982 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
Distributor
- MCA Home Video
- Universal Pictures
