E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

An extra-terrestrial is accidentally left behind on Earth and is befriended by a young boy and his brother and sister. As Elliot attempts to help his extra-terrestrial companion contact his home planet so that he might be rescued, the children must elude scientists and government agents determined to apprehend the alien for their own purposes, Hugely successful science fiction drama about a young boy who makes friends with a stranded alien. Henry Thomas is Elliott, a bored ten-year-old who discovers the creature he christens ‘ET’ in his garden shed. Together the pair embark on a life-changing adventure, but their happiness is threatened by the authorities, who want to capture ET before he manages to ‘phone home’ to ask his spacecraft to return., A meek and alienated little boy finds a stranded extraterrestrial. He has to find the courage to defy the authorities to help the alien return to its home planet., Heartwarming sci-fi fantasy. 10-year-old schoolboy Elliott befriends and shelters a gentle alien stranded on Earth. When the authorities are alerted to his unusual house guest, Elliott tries to help the creature return home before menacing government agents close in. The film won Academy Awards for music, sound and special effects., A lonely boy befriends an alien who has been left stranded on Earth. The two develop a psychic connection as the boy helps the extraterrestrial to contact his own people and call for rescue. However, living on Earth starts to have a devastating effect on the visitor’s health, while a government operative is determined to capture him for study., Heartwarming sci-fi fantasy in which a ten-year-old boy befriends and shelters a gentle alien stranded on Earth. When the authorities are alerted to his unusual house guest, the boy tries to help the creature return home before menacing government agents close in. The film won three Academy Awards for music, sound and special effects., 10-year-old schoolboy Elliott befriends and shelters a gentle alien stranded on Earth. When the authorities are alerted to his unusual house guest, Elliott tries to help the creature return home before menacing government agents close in. The film won Academy Awards for music, sound and special effects., One of the most popular films (based on box-office returns) of all time, Steven Spielberg’s E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial is a heartwarming fable of a boy and the gentle alien he befriends. With enormous, expressive black eyes and a face said to be based on those of poet Carl Sandburg and Albert Einstein set upon a long, almost reptilian neck supported by a strangely dumpy little body, the Extra Terrestrial came to Earth with a shipload of others to gather plant specimens for research. Unfortunately, something happens and the little alien is left alone on a strange world. He ends up hiding out in the backyard of ten-year-old Elliot. At first frightened and then charmed, Elliot, and later his little sister, decide to help the kindly stranger contact his ship, but first they must keep him hidden from their mother and teach him to communicate. Genuinely touching and filled with an infectious childlike wonder that has brought tears and laughter to audiences the world over, E.T. has truly become a family classic., Heartwarming sci-fi fantasy in which a 10-year-old boy befriends and shelters a gentle alien creature who has been stranded on Earth. When the authorities are alerted to this unusual house guest, the boy tries to help the creature return home before menacing government agents close in. The film won three Academy Awards for music, sound and special effects., Steven Spielberg’s fantasy about the friendship between a boy and a homesick alien stranded on Earth., A lonely boy befriends a homesick alien stranded on Earth and attempts to help him find a way home. Meanwhile, a group of government scientists attempt to capture the benevolent visitor for research. Won Oscars for sound, visual effects and score.