E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL is Steven Spielberg's
warmhearted classic delight for both children and adults.
It tells the story of an alien creature, E.T., mistakenly
left behind on Earth. When a young boy, Elliott (Henry
Thomas), finds E.T. and hides him in his home, both their
worlds are changed forever. E.T. teaches Elliott and his
two siblings (Drew Barrymore and Robert MacNaughton), whose
parents have recently separated, about caring and love
while the children protect E.T. from the malevolent world
of grown-ups. Elliott and E.T. become so close that they
share emotions; as E.T. becomes ill, so does Elliott. The
children end up going on a fabulous adventure trying to
help E.T. find a way back to his home planet. The movie was
originally going to be based on a story idea by director
John Sayles, but after he removed himself from the project,
screenwriter Melissa Mathison (Harrison Ford’s wife) took
over the script and made it her own. John Williams’s
beautiful soundtrack became forever linked to E.T. THE
EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL. |
