E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

  • Rated PG
  • 1hr 55m
  •  (57)
  • 91

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Steven Spielberg

Producer:

Melissa Mathison, Kathleen Kennedy

Release Date:

Jun 11, 1982

Runtime:

1hr 55m

Synopsis

A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home world.

Cast

  • Henry Thomas
  • Dee Wallace
  • Peter Coyote
  • Drew Barrymore
  • Robert MacNaughton

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Verified Review
#epic
#fun
#allthefeels
#mustsee

No words to describe the experience of seeing the 40th Anniversary Re-release of ET in IMAX. Complex, layered storytelling that only young Spielberg could do. A slow build movie that relies on emotions instead of special effects that gives us one of the best cathartic payoffs in cinema history in the last 10-15 minutes of the movie.

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Chris C
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#mustsee
#original
#epic
#insightful
#fun
#greatcast
#tearjerker
#allthefeels

Love, love, love this movie!!! Man the memories, I tried so hard not to cry, though my emotions got the best of me. When ET purrs like a kitten, how can you not??!! They just don’t make’m like this anymore…

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Metacritic

91
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Based on 30 Critics
8.2

USER SCORE (580)

Universal acclaim based on 580 Reviews
90

The film's real power to move flows from its low, childlike angles, which, rather than infantalize its audience, bring it down to where the hurt and fear, and hence the comfort, loom larger. [2002 re-release]

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Metacritic review by Paul Malcolm
Paul Malcolm
L.A. Weekly
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